Foucault and Political Reason

✍ Scribed by Barry, Andrew(Editor);Osborne, Thomas(Editor);Rose, Nikolas(Editor)

Publisher: UCL Press
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 292
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

These twelve essays provide a critical introduction to Foucault's work on politics, exploring its relevance to past and current thinking about liberal and neo-liberal forms of government. Moving away from the great texts of liberal political philosophy, this book looks closely at the technical means with which the ideals of liberal political rationalities have been put into practice in such areas as schools, welfare, the insurance industry, and the self-esteem movement in California.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Chapter 1. Liberal government and techniques of the self......Page 31
Chapter 2. Governing “advanced” liberal democracies......Page 49
Chapter 3. Liberalism, socialism and democracy: variations on a governmental theme......Page 77
Chapter 4. The promise of liberalism and the performance of freedom......Page 93
Chapter 5. Security and vitality: drains, liberalism and power in the nineteenth century......Page 111
Chapter 6. Lines of communication and spaces of rule......Page 135
Chapter 7. Assembling the school......Page 155
Chapter 8. Governing the city: liberalism and early modern modes of governance......Page 179
Chapter 9. Risk and responsibility......Page 201
Chapter 10. Foucault, government and the enfolding of authority......Page 221
Chapter 11. Revolutions within: self-government and self-esteem......Page 243
Chapter 12. Foucault in Britain......Page 265
Index......Page 283

✦ Subjects

Academic;Philosophy;Theory

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