Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique

By Thomas Lemke

Book Overview

The French philosopher Michel Foucault is the most cited author in the social sciences and humanities. This book discusses one of his central notions that attracted enormous interest inside and outside academia: governmentality. It reconstructs its emergence in Foucault's analytics of power and shows its trajectory in his work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594516383
• ISBN13: 9781594516382
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"