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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France) by Foucault, Michel; Senellart, Michel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Collège 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 b

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Author
Foucault, Michel; Senellart, Michel
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780230594180
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Philosophy, History
Rating
4.26 / 5 (708 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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