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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... Transcendence within Immanence: Foucault's Metaphysics of Absence'OneNever Lives Elsewhere': The Diagram and its Outside Two (More) Concepts of Liberty: Towardsa 'Properly' Negative Freedom 3 Beyond Identity: The Metohomonymy of ...
... transcendent negativitybut, onthe contrary,an immanent plane of positivity,of theplenitude of historically constituted formsof life. The diagram should therefore beconceived asa'social factory',in which ourpositive identities ...
... transcending itsinternal demarcation of the public andthe private. If weapproach 'the political' as a name for the problemof constitution oforder inthe absence of first principles (i.e.as a constitutive actof power that has no ground ...
... transcendence inthe utopiaofa purelyselfimmanent and selfenclosedorder.We shall therefore positthe refusalof biopoliticalcare that affirms the sovereign power of barelife asthe appropriate strategy ofresistance tocontemporary global ...
... transcendent 'sovereignty of biopower'. As a result, Hardt andNegri's emancipatory project comesdownto ademand fora'biopolitics without sovereignty', which replicates rather thandeconstructs the structureofthe Empire. In contrast, a ...
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 | |