Foucault, governmentality, and critique / Thomas Lemke. (Text)

Reprint. Originally published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Subject and Power -- 1.An Analytics of Government -- The Juridico-Discursive Concept of Power -- A History of Governmentality -- Foucault's Hypothesis -- 2.A Genealogy of the Modern State -- The Historical Ontology of the State -- Technologies of Government: The Materiality of the State -- Strategies and State Effects -- Governmentality and Governance -- An Indigestible Meal? -- 3.Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Technologies of Security -- Liberalism and the Birth of Biopolitics -- Technologies of Security -- The Government of Fear -- The Risks of Security -- 4.Critique and Experience -- Recurrence: Critique as an Ethical-Political Gesture -- Rarity: Problematization as a History of Truth -- Relationality: The Art of Voluntary Insubordination -- Risk: The Audacity to Expose Oneself as a Subject -- A Critical Ontology of Ourselves -- 5. From Foucault's Hypothesis to Studies of Governmentality -- Governmentality and the Analysis of Neo-Liberalism -- Problems, Limitations, and Blind Spots -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Literature -- Index -- About the Author.