Utilitarian Biopolitics
Subtitle: Bentham, Foucault and Modern Power
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Pickering & Chatto Ltd
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781848931695
Subjects: Political science, philosophy; Bentham, jeremy, 1748-1832; Foucault, michel, 1926-1984
Description: The works of Foucault and Bentham have been regularly examined in isolation, yet rarely has the relationship between them been discussed. This study traces the full breadth of that relationship within the fields of sexuality, criminology, ethics, economics and governance.