The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism

Book Overview

Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary group of Foucault scholars examines his ideas of biopower and biopolitics and their relation to his project of a history of governmentality and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823255964
• ISBN13: 9780823255962
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"