The government of life : Foucault, biopolitics, and neoliberalism /
This volume focuses on the relation that Foucault established between the ideas of biopower and biopolitics and the studies of governmentality in his last Courses at the Collège de France and in his occasional writings of this period. The essays in this volume adopt and contribute to Foucault's...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Forms of living.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | This volume focuses on the relation that Foucault established between the ideas of biopower and biopolitics and the studies of governmentality in his last Courses at the Collège de France and in his occasional writings of this period. The essays in this volume adopt and contribute to Foucault's analysis of biopolitics as a guiding thread to understand why liberalism and neoliberalism is a 'government of life'. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823261390 0823261395 9780823256006 0823256006 |