Governing the Soul by Nikolas Rose
Governing the Soul is now widely recognized 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. The second edition contains a new introduction, which sets out the methodological and conceptual bases of this approach. Also, a new final chapter has been added that considers some of the implications of recent developments in the government of subjectivity.
It's the mark of a good book that distance enhances valueThis 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 the very junctures where we take "ourselves" most seriously. A brilliant intervention itself. It is great stuff. Professor Marilyn Strathern, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Nikolas Rose is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at Kings College London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781853434440 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853434442 |
| Title | Governing the Soul |
| Author | Nikolas Rose |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Free Association Books |
| Year published | 1999-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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