Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought

by Nikolas Rose

Book Overview

Powers of Freedom, first published in 1999, offers a compelling approach to the analysis of political power which extends Foucault's hypotheses on governmentality in challenging ways. Nikolas Rose sets out the key characteristics of this approach to political power and analyses the government of conduct. He analyses the role of expertise, the politics of numbers, technologies of economic management and the political uses of space. He illuminates the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521659051
• ISBN13: 9780521659055
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 9.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"