Governmentality : Power and Rule in Modern Society
`Mitchell Dean has written an outstandingly clear and scholarly introduction to the central theses and methods of the analysis of the mentalities and techniques of rule…. He not only provides a guide to Foucault's own thought in this area, but he also draws upon other key thinkers in contemporary social theory to develop original and illuminating analysis of some principle formations of political power. Dean's book should become required reading not just for those interested in he work of Michel Foucault, but for all those who are concerned with the dilemmas of contemporary politics' -Nikolas Rose, Goldsmiths College