The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979

by Michel Foucault

Book Overview

Picador is proud to publish the sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Coll ge de France from 1970 to 1984

The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault's lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the birth of a new governmental rationality--seeking maximum effectiveness by governing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312203411
• ISBN13: 9780312203412
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"