Security, Territory, Population

Derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought. This book explores the technologies of security and the history of 'governmentality'.

ISBN 1403986533   Pages 456 ISBN13 9781403986535 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 561 Publisher Palgrave USA   Published in Gordonsville Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Series title Michel Foucault: Lectures at the College De France Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 20 May 2009   Width (mm) 137 Translator Graham Burchell   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY 320.1   Academic level Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC22

Foreword; Introduction; 11 January 1978; 18 January 1978; 25 January 1978; 1 February 1978; 8 February 1978; 15 February 1978; 22 February 1978; 1 March 1978; 8 March 1978; 15 March 1978; 22 March 1978; 29 March 1978; 5 April 1978; Course Summary; Course Context; Index of Notions; Index of Names.

"'The English translation of Security, Territory and Population is a major event not only for Anglophone readers of Foucault's work, but for all those concerned with understanding our present social and political condition. These lectures show that the trenchant analysis of biopower, 'power over life', which Foucault had begun in the first volume of the History of Sexuality and which he pursues here in terms of technologies of security, led him to a decisively deeper and more radical formulation of his guiding problematic what he called - the government of the self and others - the issue that would serve as the basis for all his subsequent work. Security, Territory and Population might thus properly be called the 'missing link' that reveals the underlying unity of Foucault's later thought... Burchell's translation is meticulous, supple, and attentive to the nuances of Foucault's fluid lecture style. We all stand in his debt' - Kevin Thompson, Book Review Editor, Continental Philosophy Review, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, USA"

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