Governing the Soul

This work is now widely recognised as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This "governmentality" perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, political theory, sociology and psychology and has generated much theoretical innovation and empirical investigation. This second edition adds a new introduction setting out the methodological and conceptual bases of this approach and a new final chapter that considers some of the implications of recent developments in the government of subjectivity.

ISBN	1853434442	Pages	352
ISBN13	9781853434440 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Free Association Books	Weight (grammes)	610
Imprint	Free Association Books	Published in	London
Format	Paperback	Previous ISBN	9781853434433
Publication date	01 May 1999	Height (mm)	235
Library of Congress	BF	Width (mm)	146
DEWEY	150	Spine width (mm)	25
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly

	Preface to the Second Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	People at War
1	The Psychology of War	15
2	The Government of Morale	22
3	The Sykewarriors	33
4	Groups at War	40
Pt. 2	The Productive Subject
5	The Subject of Work	55
6	The Contented Worker	61
7	The Worker at War	76
8	Democracy at Work	81
9	The Expertise of Management	95
10	The Production of the Self	103
Pt. 3	The Child, the Family, and the Outside World
11	The Young Citizen	123
12	The Gaze of the Psychologist	135
13	Adjusting the Bonds of Love	155
14	Maximizing the Mind	182
15	The Responsible Autonomous Family	205
Pt. 4	Managing Our Selves
16	Obliged to be Free	217
17	Reshaping our Behaviour	233
18	Technologies of Autonomy	244
19	The Therapies of Freedom	259
	Afterword: 1999	263
	Notes	273
	Index	313

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