Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom write by Thomas L. Dumm. This book was released on 2002. Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition of a 1995 book (Sage Publications) contains a new introduction by the series editor and a new preface. Readers familiar with Foucault's work will appreciate the difficulty in critically studying its arresting paradoxical nature. Dumm (political science, Amherst College) negotiates the problem by creating a thematic framework--the idea of being "free" in a modern Western capitalist democracy--and examining it through a Foucaultian lens. He focuses on the politics of freedom, negative freedom, the disciplinary society, ethics, seduction, governments, and provides an enlightening companion to Foucault's postmodern philosophy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty
Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty write by Sergei Prozorov. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Foucault on Freedom
Foucault on Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foucault on Freedom write by Johanna Oksala. This book was released on 2005-06-16. Foucault on Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in Foucault's philosophy and examines its three major divisions.
Foucault's Discipline
Foucault's Discipline - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foucault's Discipline write by John S. Ransom. This book was released on 1997. Foucault's Discipline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Foucault’s Discipline, John S. Ransom extracts a distinctive vision of the political world—and oppositional possibilities within it—from the welter of disparate topics and projects Michel Foucault pursued over his lifetime. Uniquely, Ransom presents Foucault as a political theorist in the tradition of Weber and Nietzsche, and specifically examines Foucault’s work in relation to the political tradition of liberalism and the Frankfurt School. By concentrating primarily on Discipline and Punish and the later Foucauldian texts, Ransom provides a fresh interpretation of this controversial philosopher’s perspectives on concepts such as freedom, right, truth, and power. Foucault’s Discipline demonstrates how Foucault’s valorization of descriptive critique over prescriptive plans of action can be applied to the decisively altered political landscape of the end of this millennium. By reconstructing the philosopher’s arguments concerning the significance of disciplinary institutions, biopower, subjectivity, and forms of resistance in modern society, Ransom shows how Foucault has provided a different way of looking at and responding to contemporary models of government—in short, a new depiction of the political world.
Foucault and the Politics of Rights
Foucault and the Politics of Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foucault and the Politics of Rights write by Ben Golder. This book was released on 2015-10-07. Foucault and the Politics of Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to rights in his philosophical writings, political statements, interviews, and journalism. He not only defends their importance; he argues for rights new and as-yet-unrecognized. Does Foucault simply revise his former positions and endorse a liberal politics of rights? Ben Golder proposes an answer to this puzzle, which is that Foucault approaches rights in a spirit of creative and critical appropriation. He uses rights strategically for a range of political purposes that cannot be reduced to a simple endorsement of political liberalism. Golder develops this interpretation of Foucault's work while analyzing its shortcomings and relating it to the approaches taken by a series of current thinkers also engaged in considering the place of rights in contemporary politics, including Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière.
