Sergei Prozorov

Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780754649083
• ISBN-10: 0754649083
• Artikelnr.: 47831196

Autorenporträt

Sergei Prozorov is Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Politics and Social Sciences, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Thinking Freedom Freely
Part 1 Being Beside Itself: An Austere Ontology of Freedom
Chapter 1 Unhappy Positivism: Is There a Foucauldian Freedom?
Chapter 2 Transcendence within Immanence: Foucault's Metaphysics of Absence
Chapter 3 Beyond Identity: The Meto-homonymy of Potential Being
Chapter 3a 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
Chapter 4 Ontological Extremism: Foucault, Schmitt and Sovereign Freedom
Chapter 5 Beyond theCounterproductivity: How to Empty Out the Enemy's Power
conclusion Conclusion: Why Want Freedom?