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Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty

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Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty

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Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty

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Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty book

BySergei Prozorov
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 18 April 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582863
Pages 180
eBook ISBN 9781315582863
Subjects Politics & International Relations
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Prozorov, S. (2007). Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582863

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |21 pages

Introduction: Thinking Freedom Freely

part 1|55 pages

Being Beside Itself: An Austere Ontology of Freedom

chapter 1|12 pages

Unhappy Positivism: Is There a Foucauldian Freedom?

chapter 2|15 pages

Transcendence within Immanence: Foucault’s Metaphysics of Absence

chapter 3|15 pages

Beyond Identity: The Meto-homonymy of Potential Being

chapter |9 pages

Interlude: ‘To Be Out of the Camps’: Michael K and The Power of Pure Refusal

part 2|68 pages

Ecstatic Exodus: The Return of the Sovereign Subject

chapter 4|21 pages

Ontological Extremism: Foucault, Schmitt and Sovereign Freedom

chapter 5|22 pages

Beyond the Biopolitical Terrain: The Sovereign Power of Bare Life

chapter 6|22 pages

Counterproductivity: How to Empty Out the Enemy’s Power

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion: Why Want Freedom?

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