Philosophy - Michel Foucault - Collège de France Series

The Complete Collège de France Lectures given by one of the Most Influential Thinkers of the Last Century

Michel Foucault remains among the towering intellectual figures of the modern age. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison and medicine are classics; his example continues to challenge and inspire. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous Collège de France. These lectures were seminal events. Attended by thousands, they created benchmarks for contemporary critical inquiry.

These lectures are now being made available in English for the first time in this series from Palgrave Macmillan.

Forthcoming

The Birth of Biopolitics
Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979
Michel Foucault

Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Translated by: Graham Burchell

Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France in 1979, The Birth of Biopolitics, pursue and develop further the themes of his lectures from the previous year, Security, Territory, Population.  Having shown how Eighteen century political economy marks the birth of a new governmental rationality – seeking maximum effectiveness by governing less and in accordance with the naturalness of the phenomena to be governed – Michel Foucault undertakes the detailed analysis of the forms of 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".

Hardback    April 2008   978-1-4039-8654-2   £20.99
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Security, Territory, Population
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Michel Foucault

Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the College de France between January and April, 1978. Taking as his starting point the notion of 'bio-power', introduced in his 1976 course Society Must be Defended, Foucault sets out to study the foundations of this new technology of power over population.

Hardback    March 2007    1403986525    £19.99
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Psychiatric Power
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
Michel Foucault and Arnold I. Davidson
Translator: Graham Burchell

Psychiatric Power shows not only how Western society’s division of the ‘mad’ from the ‘sane’ began but also how the apparatuses of society, the institutions of medicine and law, and their treatment of the ‘mad’ developed into what we now recognize as modern psychiatry and, more widely, modern social and political attitudes towards madness.

Hardback    April 2006    1403969221    £20.99
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Forthcoming in this series:

• La Volonté de Savoir (The Will to Knowledge)
• Theories de Institutions Penales (Theories of Punishment)
• La Société Punitive (The Punitive Society)
• De Gouvernement des Vivants (The Government of Man)
• Subjectivite et Vérité (Subjectivity and Truth)
• Le Gouvernement de Soi et des Autres (The Government of Self and Others)
• Le Courage de la Vérité (The Courage of Truth)

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Beverley Millar
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