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Governing the Soul: Shaping of the Private Self
Nikolas Rose
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Description for Governing the Soul: Shaping of the Private Self
Paperback. Provides an approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This edition adds a new introduction setting out the methodoligical and conceptual basis of this approach and a new final chapter considers some of the implications of recent developments. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
This work is now widely recognised as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This "governmentality" perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, political theory, sociology and psychology and has generated much theoretical innovation and empirical investigation. This second edition adds a new introduction setting out the methodological and conceptual bases of this approach and a new final chapter that considers some of the implications of recent developments in the government of subjectivity.
This work is now widely recognised as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This "governmentality" perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, political theory, sociology and psychology and has generated much theoretical innovation and empirical investigation. This second edition adds a new introduction setting out the methodological and conceptual bases of this approach and a new final chapter that considers some of the implications of recent developments in the government of subjectivity.
Product Details
Publisher
Free Association Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853434440
SKU
V9781853434440
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About Nikolas Rose
Nikolas Rose is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at Kings College London.
Reviews for Governing the Soul: Shaping of the Private Self
It's the mark of a good book that distance enhances value. This appraisal of the role which the human sciences have played in the production of selves at once governable and self-governing still bites. Rose shows how political technologies reappear as canons of personal ethics, and thus points to self transforming properties in our practices of understanding and intervention at ... Read more