Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne, Nikolas Rose. 1: Liberal government and techniques of the self Graham Burchell 2: Governing "advanced" liberal democracies Nikolas Rose 3: Liberalism, socialism and democracy: variations on a governmental theme Barry Hi[...]

For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks [...]

The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems that neuroscientists are poised to become the new experts in the [...]

This volume brings together for the first time key papers from the the work of influential social theorists Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of their approach to the analysis of political power and the state.[...]

Livspolitikken i vores århundrede bestemmes hverken af sygdommes eller dødens poler og er heller ikke fokuseret på at eliminere patologiske tilstande for at beskytte nationens skæbne, som det 18. og 19. århundredes sundhedspolitik var det. I stedet er den optaget af vores voksende evn[...]

Powers of Freedom offers a compelling new approach to the analysis of political power which extends Foucault’s hypotheses on governmentality in new and challenging ways. Nikolas Rose sets out the key characteristics of this approach to political power and analyses the government of conduct in n[...]