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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 (Lectures at the College de France) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 1403986541
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.51
EAN: 9781403986542
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Publication Date: June 10, 2008
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this liberal governmentality. This involves describing the political rationality within which the specific problems of life and population were posed: "Studying liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics".
What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined in the Eighteenth century? What crisis of governmentality characterises the present world and what revisions of liberal government has it given rise to? This is the diagnostic task addressed by Foucault's study of the two major twentieth century schools of neo-liberalism: German ordo-liberalism and the neo-liberalism of the Chicago School. In the years he taught at the College de France, this was Michel Foucault's sole foray into the field of contemporary history. This course thus raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics. A remarkable feature of these lectures is their discussion of contemporary economic theory and practice, culminating in an analysis of the model of homo oeconomicus.
Foucault's analysis also highlights the paradoxical role played by "society" in relation to government. "Society" is both that in the name of which government strives to limit itself, but it is also the target for permanent governmental intervention to produce, multiply, and guarantee the freedoms required by economic liberalism. Far from being opposed to the State, civil society is thus shown to be the correlate of a liberal technology of government.
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 Must Read September 15, 2008
Daniel T. O'hara (Phila. PA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
These lectures demonstrate persuasively that the attempt to master life, especially human life, is not the legacy of Nazism or sci-fi nightmares, but the spontaneous consequence of economic liberalism in its modern form. The idea that government should intervene in society but only to establish, strengthen, and extend the market and its principles to all areas of society means that the population must be managed and even remediated or improved to ensure its members can participate productively in the market. Foucault ends these lectures, after this important demonstration, by showing how the idea of civil society is both a complement to this vision of the market economy and the motor of history that leads to potentially radical changes in politics. This book is a must-read for all serious students of Foucault, critical theory, and contemporary politics.
foucault, birth of biopolitics October 6, 2008
robert hollinger
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
this is an important book. thanks for sending it so quickly and at an unbeatable price!
 Long awaited translation October 25, 2008
Jake O'Connor
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A book that was due to be translated in English and provides the first attempt of Foucault to cirscumscribe the neoliberal enterprise.
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