Governing the soul : the shaping of the private self

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Summary: 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.

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Part 1. People at war. The psychology of war ; The government of morale ; The sykewarriors ; Groups at war. Pt. 2. The productive subject. The subject of work ; The contented worker ; The worker at war ; Democracy at work ; The expertise of management ; The production of the self. Pt. 3. The child, the family, and the outside world. The young citizen. The gaze of the psychologist ; Adjusting the bonds of love ; Maximizing the mind ; The responsible autonomous family. Pt. 4. Managing our selves. Obliged to be free ; Reshaping our behaviour ; Technologies of autonomy ; The therapies of freedom