Governing the Soul
Subtitle: The Shaping of the Private Self
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Free Assn Books
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781853434440
Subjects: The self, ego, identity, personality; Literary Criticism; Literature: Classics; Sociology; General
Description: This work is now widely recognised 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. This second edition adds a new introduction setting out the methodological and conceptual bases of this approach and a new final chapter that considers some of the implications of recent developments in the government of subjectivity.