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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... a comebackin this book, stopping short of reclaiming its centralposition but rather reasserting itself at the limitof every political orderas a paradigm ofthe subject of freedom,a beingthat is irreducible to any positive identity but is ...
Dr Sergei Prozorov. Introduction. Thinking. Freedom. Freely. 'Freedom Fries': Beyond the Illusion of the Perfect Order Speaking about freedom today is a strangely uneasy experience.On the onehand, isthere anything more selfevident and less ...
... with the pseudo emancipatory discourses thatwe setout tocriticise. A critique advanced inthe name of freedom alwaysrisks being inaudible inthewhite ... an instrument ofauthority. Perhaps, the best exampleof this abuse of the notion of.
... the authoritative appropriation of freedom tooneself in 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 ...
... of almostevery conventional discourseonfreedom, the assumption ofthe perfect order nonetheless presupposes too much.Firstly, freedom is apriori linked toaformof orderas the only possible locus forits practice and,moreover, becomes an ...
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 | |