Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private SelfGoverning 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. |
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| Title | Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self, Nikolas S. Rose |
| Author | Nikolas S. Rose |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | Free Association Books, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 1853434434, 9781853434433 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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