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Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom (Paperback, New Edition)
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Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom (Paperback, New Edition)
Series: Modernity and Political Thought
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What is freedom? In this study, Thomas Dumm challenges the
conventions that have governed discussions and debates concerning
modern freedom by bringing the work of Michel Foucault into
dialogue with contemporary liberal thought. While Foucault has been
widely understood to have characterized the modern era as being
opposed to the realization of freedom, Dumm shows how this
characterization conflates FoucaultOs genealogy of discipline with
his overall view of the practices of being free. Dumm demonstrates
how FoucaultOs critical genealogy does not shrink from
understanding the ways in which modern subjects are constrained and
shaped by forces greater than themselves, but how it instead works
through these constraints to provide, not simply a vision of
liberation, but a joyous wisdom concerned with showing us, in his
words, that we Oare much freer than we feel.O Both as an
introduction to Foucault and as an intervention in liberal theory,
Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom is bound to change how
we think about the limits and possibilities of freedom in late
modernity.
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