Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78 (Michel Foucault: Lectures at the Collège de France) - Softcover

Foucault, M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403986533 ISBN 13: 9781403986535

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Review:

'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
 
'Foucault, and this book, has enriched and extended our understandings of the field which Foucault made his own: the history of systems of thought.' - Roger Deacon, The European Legacy

Book Description:

First publication of Foucault's lectures, spanning from 1977-1978, focusing on the institutionalization of power in government

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1403986533
• ISBN 13: 9781403986535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434
• Editor: Davidson Arnold I.