Foucault Effect Studies in Governmentality

Name: Foucault Effect Studies in Governmentality
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ISBN: 9780226080451

ISBN-10: 0226080455

ISBN-13: 9780226080451

Edition: 1991

Authors: Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, Peter Miller

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Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collegrave;ge de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to Power/Knowledge. In these lectures, Foucault examines the art or activity of government both in its present form and within a historical perspective as well as the different ways governmentality has been made thinkable and practicable. Foucault's thoughts on political discourse and governmentality are supplemented by the essays of internationally renowned scholars. United by the common influence of Foucault's approach, they explore the many modern manifestations of government: the…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/9/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface



Governmental Rationality: An Introduction




Politics and the Study of Discourse




Questions of Method




Governmentality




Theatrum Politicum: The Genealogy of Capital - Police and the State of Prosperity




Peculiar Interests: Civil Society and Governing 'The System of Natural Liberty'




Social Economy and the Government of Poverty




The Mobilization of Society




How Should We Do the History of Statistics?




Insurance and Risk




'Popular Life' and Insurance Technology




Criminology: The Birth of a Special Knowledge




Pleasure in Work




From Dangerousness to Risk



Index