Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason
Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts

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.

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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Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason
Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts

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.

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

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

by Thomas Lemke
Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason

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

by Thomas Lemke

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Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts

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.

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786636454
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 03/05/2019
Edition description: Translatio
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 6.03(w) x 9.18(h) x 1.41(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English-language Edition x

Introduction, Paradoxes, Contradictions, Aporias: The Order of Discourse as the Discourse of Order 1

Part I The Microphysics of Power

1 From the Archaeology of Knowledge to the Problem of Power 31

The Problem of Knowledge 33

A General Theory of Discursive Practices 40

Discourse and Power 45

2 The Genealogy of Power 49

'Daily Struggles at the Grass-Roots Level': May 1968 53

Le Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons 57

Critique and Crisis: The Prison Question 59

3 Discipline: The Political Anatomy of the Body 64

The Prison as Technology: Discipline 68

The Prison as Strategy: Delinquency 77

4 Nietzsche's Hypothesis 86

Beyond Repression and Ideology: The Concept of Power-Knowledge 87

The King's Head: The Juridical Conception of Power 96

War and Struggle: The Strategic Conception of Power 101

5 The 'Disciplination' of Power Analysis 108

Subjectivity and Resistance 109

The Microphysics and Macrophysics of Power 119

Part II Governmentality

6 From Discipline to Government 127

The Repressive Hypothesis 129

The War Hypothesis 133

The Problematic of Biopower 135

The Concept of Government 145

7 The Genealogy of the Modern State 153

The Government of Souls: The Christian Pastorate 155

The Government of Human Beings 159

The Liberal Art of Government 176

Dispositives of Security 188

8 The Government of Society: The Invention of the Social 199

The Government of Poverty: The Social Question 201

The Birth of Security Society 216

The Defence of Society 226

9 The Government of Individuals: Neoliberalism 243

'Inequality Is Equal for All': Ordoliberalism and the German Model 246

The Social as a Form of the Economic: The Chicago School 252

Autonomy and Self-Government 256

Part III Politics and Ethics

10 From the History of Sexuality to the Genealogy of Ethics 265

Technologies of the Self 270

Subjectivity and Experience 274

Morality and Ethics 278

11 The Genealogy of the Modern Subject 284

Aesthetics of Existence: The Art of Living in Classical Greece 288

The Culture of the Self: Hellenistic-Roman Ethics 295

The Hermeneutics of Desire: Morality and Ethics in Christianity 300

12 Subjectivity and Power 307

Unholy Subjectivism? 309

Power as 'Conducting Conducts' 315

Excursus: The Iranian Revolution 329

13 The Problem of Truth 341

The Politics of Truth 342

A History of Truth: Historical Nominalism 346

The Concept of Problematization 354

Fiction and Construction 358

14 An Answer to the Question: What is Critique? 363

The Genealogy of Critique 364

What Is Enlightenment? 367

The Critical Attitude 372

What Is Maturity? 378

'By Way of Conclusion' 384

Bibliography 389

Index 431

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