Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason - Softcover

Lemke, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178663645X ISBN 13: 9781786636454

Verlag: Verso Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that Foucault's concern with ethics and forms of subjectivation is always already integrated into his political concerns and his analytics of power. The book also shows how the concept of government was taken up in different lines of research in France before it gave rise to "governmentality studies" in the Anglophone world.
A Critique of Political Reason: Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality provides a clear and well-structured exposition that is theoretically challenging but also accessible for a wider audience. Thus, the book can be read both as an original examination of Foucault's concept of government and as a general introduction to his "genealogy of power".

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Thomas Lemke is Heisenberg Professor of sociology at Goethe University, Frankfurt. He has authored widely cited works on social theory, with a focus on governmentality.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 178663645X
• ISBN 13: 9781786636454
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
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