The Foucault effect : studies in governmentality
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The Foucault effect : studies in governmentality
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Based upon Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the College de France on rationalities of government, this volume is a follow-up to "Power/Knowledge" which was published by Harvester Wheatsheaf in 1980. In these lectures Foucault examines the art or activity of government in its present form and within a historic perspective, and the different ways in which it has been made thinkable and practicable. This work on political discourse and governmentality is supplemented by chapters from nine international scholars. United by the common influence of Foucault's approach, they explore the many modern manifestations of government - the reason of state, police, liberalism, security, social economy, insurance, "solidarisme", welfare, risk management and others. The book's theme is that the object and activity of government are not instinctive and natural things, but things that have been invented and learnt. "The Foucault Effect" analyzes the thought behind practices of government and argues that criticism represents a true force for change in attitudes and actions, and that extending the limits of some practices allows the invention of others.
Table of Contents
- Governmental rationality - an introduction, Colin Gordon
- politics and the study of discourse, Michel Foucault
- questions of method, Michel Foucault
- governmentality, Michel Foucault
- theatrum politicum - the genealogy of capital (police and the state of prosperity), Pasquale Pasquino
- peculiar interests - civil society and governing "the system of natural liberty", Graham Burchell
- social economy and the government of poverty, Giovanna Procaci
- the mobilization of society, Jacques Donzelot
- how should we do the history of statistics?, Ian Hacking
- insurance and risk, Francois Ewald
- "popular life" and insurance technology, Daniel Defert
- criminology - the birth of a special knowledge, Pasqale Pasquino
- pleasure in work, Jacques Donzelot
- from dangerousness to risk, Robert Castel.
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