A critique of political reason : Foucault's analysis of modern governmentality /: Foucault's analysis of modern governmentality. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Kritik der politischen Vernunft.
• Further Information: Note: Thomas Lemke ; translated by Erik Butler.
• Authors: Lemke, Thomas
• Other Names: Butler, Erik 1971- translator.
• Contents: Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the English-language Edition; Introduction: Paradoxes, Contradictions, Aporias: The Order of Discourse as the Discourse of Order; Part I: The Microphysics of Power; 1. From the Archaeology of Knowledge to the Problem of Power; The Problem of Knowledge; A General Theory of Discursive Practices; Discourse and Power; 2. The Genealogy of Power; 'Daily Struggles at the Grass-Roots Level': May 1968; Le Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons; Critique and Crisis: The Prison Question 3. Discipline: The Political Anatomy of the BodyThe Prison as Technology: Discipline; The Prison as Strategy: Delinquency; 4. Nietzsche's Hypothesis; Beyond Repression and Ideology: The Concept of Power-Knowledge; The King's Head: The Juridical Conception of Power; War and Struggle: The Strategic Conception of Power; 5. The 'Disciplination' of Power Analysis; Subjectivity and Resistance; The Microphysics and Macrophysics of Power; Part II: Governmentality; 6. From Discipline to Government; The Repressive Hypothesis; The War Hypothesis; The Problematic of Biopower; The Concept of Government 7. The Genealogy of the Modern StateThe Government of Souls: The Christian Pastorate; The Government of Human Beings; The Liberal Art of Government; Dispositives of Security; 8. The Government of Society: The Invention of the Social; The Government of Poverty: The Social Question; The Birth of Security Society; The Defence of Society; 9. The Government of Individuals: Neoliberalism; 'Inequality Is Equal for All': Ordoliberalism and the German Model; The Social as a Form of the Economic: The Chicago School; Autonomy and Self-Government; Part III: Politics and Ethics 10. From the History of Sexuality to the Genealogy of EthicsTechnologies of the Self; Subjectivity and Experience; Morality and Ethics; 11. The Genealogy of the Modern Subject; Aesthetics of Existence: The Art of Living in Classical Greece; The Culture of the Self: Hellenistic-Roman Ethics; The Hermeneutics of Desire: Morality and Ethics in Christianity; 12. Subjectivity and Power; Unholy Subjectivism?; Power as 'Conducting Conducts'; Excursus: The Iranian Revolution; 13. The Problem of Truth; The Politics of Truth; A History of Truth: Historical Nominalism; The Concept of Problematization Fiction and Construction14. An Answer to the Question: What is Critique?; The Genealogy of Critique; What Is Enlightenment?; The Critical Attitude; What Is Maturity?; 'By Way of Conclusion'; Bibliography; Notes; Index
• Publisher Details: London Brooklyn, NY : Verso
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 320.01; Political science -- Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Electronic books; Political and social views
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786636430; 1786636433
• Related ISBNs: 9781786636454; 178663645X; 9781786636447; 1786636441; 1788732510; 9781788732512
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 9, 2019).
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