The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979 (Lectures at the College de France)

Picador is proud to publish the sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984

The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault's lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-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 a detailed analysis of the forms of this liberal governmentality. In a direct and conversational tone, this book raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics.

• Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978
• "Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
• Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution (Zone / Near Futures)
• Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
• On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980
• Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self
• The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982-1983
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction