Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978

Foucault, Michel

ISBN 10: 0312203608 / ISBN 13: 9780312203603

Editore: Picador, 2009

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• Titolo: Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978
• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0312203608
• ISBN 13: 9780312203603
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Marking a major development in Michel Foucault's thinking, Security, Territory, Population takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of power over populations.

Distinct from punitive disciplinary systems, the mechanisms of power are here finely entwined with the technologies of security. In this volume, though, Foucault begins to turn his attention to the history of "governmentality," from the first centuries of the Christian era to the emergence of the modern nation state--shifting the center of gravity of the lectures from the question of biopower to that of government. In light of Foucault's later work, these lectures illustrate a radical turning point at which the transition to the problematic of the "government of self and others" would begin.

Informazioni sull?autore

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

His books include The Government of Self and Others, The Courage of Truth, The Birth of Biopolitics, and The Punitive Society.