The birth of biopolitics : lectures at the College de France, 1978-79 /
Michel Foucault ; edited by Michel Senellart ; translated by Graham Burchell
- xvii, 346 pages ; 23 cm.
- Michel Foucault: lectures at the College de France .
Translation of: Naissance de la biopolitique : Cours au college de france, 1978-1979.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
10 January, 1979: Questions of method -- 17 January, 1979: Liberalism and the implementation of a new art of government in the eighteenth century -- 24 January, 1979: Specific features of the liberal art of government -- 31 January, 1979: Phobia of the state -- 7 February, 1979: German neo-liberalism -- 14 February, 1979: German neo-liberalism: Usefulness of historical analyses for the present -- 21 February, 1979: Second aspect of the "policy of society" according to the neo-liberals: the problem of law in a society regulated according to the model of the competitive market economy -- 7 March, 1979: General remarks: the methodological scope of the analysis of micro-powers -- The inflationism of state phobia. Its links with ordoliberalism -- 14 March,1979: American neo-liberalism (I). Its context -- The difference between American and European neo-liberalism -- 21 March, 1979: American neo-liberalism (II)The application of the economic grid to social phenomena -- 28 March, 1979: The model of homo oeconomicus -- Its generalization to every form of behavior in American neo-liberalism -- 4 April, 1979: Elements for a history of the notion of homo oeconomicus.