The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault

by Michel Foucault

Book Overview

Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Coll ge de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to Power/Knowledge. In these lectures, Foucault examines the art or activity of government both in its present form and within a historical perspective as well as the different ways governmentality has been made thinkable and practicable.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226080455
• ISBN13: 9780226080451
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Foucault and clarity

This is a key text for any of us wrestling with the epistemological change which Foucault created in his own, earlier writing. The work on "governmentality",for example, expanded here into intelligible and practical context allows each researcher to use Foucault's vision to generate the methodological tools which he had deliberately avoided.Castel's analysis of 'normal' by itself makes this book worth owning because it is both a guide to Foucault's own philosophical progress and a set of practical extensions of his unrolling vision. Buy it!