Foucault, Freedom and SovereigntyAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013 M02 28 - 180 pages Against the prevailing interpretations which disqualify a Foucauldian approach from the discourse of freedom, this study offers a novel concept of political freedom and posits freedom as the primary axiological motif of Foucault's writing. Based on a new interpretation of the relation of Foucault's approach to the problematic of sovereignty, Sergei Prozorov both reconstructs ontology of freedom in Foucault's textual corpus and outlines the modalities of its practice in the contemporary terrain of global governance. The book critically engages with the acclaimed post-Foucauldian theories of Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri, thereby restoring the controversial notion of the sovereign subject to the critical discourse on global politics. As a study in political thought, this book will be suitable for students and scholars interested in the problematic of political freedom, philosophy and global governance. |
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... the very momentof its enunciation. The very act of predicating certain qualities and attributes to thesubject of freedom logically invites the questionof whether thissubject must not retain the capacity to becomefree fromthese very ...
... the very Empireit seeksto resist. Instead, proceeding from the Foucauldian critiqueof biopolitical rationalities ofgovernment, we shall offer an alternative pathwayof resistance tocontemporary global governance that consistsin the ...
... The very incontestability of the value of freedom rendersit inherently ambiguous, which opens an infinite rangeof possibilities for itsabuse under the guise of a selfassumed 'responsibilityto promote human freedom' (ibid., 10) ...
... thevery same actof denying ittoothers, whose very exerciseof the freedom ofopinion apparently renders themunworthy of it,this incident alsopoints to theproblem of thedevaluation of the very notion of freedominits deployment asapolitical ...
... the very sense of 'unfreedom'that is widespread informally 'free' regimes and, as the historyof the twentieth century demonstrates, has frequently ledto the demiseof the'formal' freedom itself. Moreover, the abstractionof the concept ...
Contents
Foucaults Metaphysics | |
The Metohomonymy of Potential Being | |
Michael K and the Power | |
4Ontological | |
Power Potentiality and Freedom | |
The Sovereign Powerof Bare Life | |
Power | |
Why Want Freedom? | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |