Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty

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

'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.' Louiza Odysseos, University of Sussex, UK '...this thought-provoking and well-written book will surely prompt Foucaldian and non-Foucaudian scholars alike to re-examine - and perhaps reassess - their deepest assumptions about the questions of human freedom and identity.' Foucault Studies 'This is a novel use of Foucault, a novel way to bring him to law...we can read here the beginnings of a more robust theorization of law itself in Hammer's text...' The Leiden Journal of International Law

• 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?;