Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty

✍ Scribed by Sergei Prozorov

• Publisher: Ashgate
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 169
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Preface
Introduction: thinking freedom freely
Part 1 Being Beside Itself: an Austere Ontology of Freedom: Unhappy positivism: is there a Foucauldian freedom?
Transcendence within immanence: Foucault's metaphysics of absence
Beyond identity: the meto-homonymy of potential being
Interlude. 'To be out of the camps': Michael K and the power of pure refusal. Part 2 Ecstatic Exodus: The Return of the Sovereign Subject: Ontological extremism: Foucault, Schmitt and sovereign freedom
Beyond the biopolitical terrain: the sovereign power of bare life
Counterproductivity: how to empty out the enemy's power
Conclusion: why want freedom?
Bibliography
Index.

✦ Subjects

Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984. Liberty. Sovereignty. Electronic books. PHILOSOPHY -- Political.