Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty

by Prozorov,Sergei

• ISBN13: 9780754649083
• ISBN10: 0754649083
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sergei Prozorov's engagement with Foucault is an intellectual tour de force! In developing a Foucauldian ontology of freedom that disrupts the reduction of freedom to an attribute of political order and provides an affirmation of freedom as a concrete human experience, Prozorov has provided an invaluable book for scholars and students.......which reinstates the need to reflect anew on freedom. Dr. Louiza Odysseos, University of Sussex, UK. This book presents a novel conception of political freedom developed on the basis of the work of Foucault. Against the prevailing interpretations which disqualify a Foucauldian approach from the discourse of freedom, this study posits freedom as the primary axiological motif of Foucault's writing. Prozorov reconstructs an ontology of freedom in Foucault's textual corpus AND outlines the modalities of its practice in the contemporary terrain of global governance on the basis of a new interpretation of the relation of Foucault's approach to the problematic of sovereignty. Critically engaging with acclaimed post-Foucauldian theories of Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri, this book restores 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 governmentality. 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?; Index. About the Author: Sergei Prozorov is Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Politics and Social Sciences, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia.

Table of Contents

Definitions and Legislation

Genocide as a crime in international law

The convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide: fifty years later

Guglielmo Verdirame (2000)

The genocide definition in the jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals

Catherine Mackinnon (1994)

Rape, genocide and women's human rights(1997)

The crime of political genocide: repairing the genocide convention's blind spot

Understanding Genocide and Mass Violations of Rights:(1978)

A formula for genocide: comparison of the Turkish genocide (1915)

and the German Holocaust (1939-45)

Patterns of frontier genocide 1803-1910: the Aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero of Namibia(2000)

Hate speech in Rwanda: the road to genocide(1993)

The psychology of bystanders, perpetrators, and heroic helpers(2000)

Were the perpetrators of genocide "ordinary men" or "real Nazis"? results from fifteen hundred biographies

Preventing Genocide(2003)

No lessons learned from the Holocaust? assessing risks of genocide and political mass murder since 1955(1988)

Justice and realpolitik: international law and the prevention of genocide(2002)

Genocide and humanitarian intervention(1999)

Anticipatory humanitarian intervention in Kosovo (1996)

Legal responses to genocide and other massive violations of human rights

Punishment and Reconciliation:(1997)

Accountability for past abuses (1995)

State crimes of previous regimes: knowledge, accountability, and policing of the past (1999-2000)

Atrocities, deterrence and the limits of international justice (2003)

A classification of denials of the Holocaust and other genocides (2002)

Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing: listening, retribution, affiliation

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