The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism

Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and inte...

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Main Authors: Lemm, Vanessa, Vatter, Miguel
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: New York Fordham University Press 2014
Edition:1
Series:Forms of Living
Subjects:
1926-1984
Biopolitics
Foucault
Foucault, Michel
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Government
History & Theory
Life
Neoliberalism
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy & Theory
PHILOSOPHY / Political
Political
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
power
Security
Government
Philosophy & Theory
Life
Biopolitics
power
Security
Neoliberalism
Foucault
Political Science
ISBN:9780823255962, 0823255964, 9780823255979, 0823255972
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Summary:Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary group of Foucault scholars examines his ideas of biopower and biopolitics and their relation to his project of a history of governmentality and to a theory of the subject found in his last courses at the College de France. Many of the chapters engage critically with the Italian theoretical reception of Foucault. At the same time, the originality of this collection consists in the variety of perspectives and traditions of reception brought to bear upon the problematic connections between biopolitics and governmentality established by Foucault's last works.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-275) and index
ISBN:9780823255962
0823255964
9780823255979
0823255972
DOI:10.1515/9780823256006