The Birth of Biopolitics

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The Birth of Biopolitics is a series of 1978–1979 lectures by Michel Foucault that analyze the emergence of neoliberal governmentality and its implications for modern forms of power over life and populations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lecture series
philosophical work
political theory text
analyzes economic rationality as a model for government
relationship between liberalism and biopolitics
transformation of the state under neoliberalism
author Michel Foucault
cityOfLecture Paris
countryOfOrigin France
field history of ideas
political philosophy
social theory
focusesOn emergence of neoliberal governmentality
forms of power over life and populations
follows Security, Territory, Population
influenced biopolitics scholarship
critical legal studies
governmentality studies
neoliberalism studies
political theory
language French
lectureEndYear 1979
lectureStartYear 1978
originalLectureYears 1978–1979
originalPublisher Gallimard
philosophicalTradition continental philosophy
post-structuralism
placeOfLecture Collège de France
precedes The Government of Self and Others
publicationYear 2004
publisher Gallimard
Palgrave Macmillan
series Collège de France lectures
linked to: Collège de France
subject American neoliberalism
Chicago School of economics
Freiburg School
German ordoliberalism
biopolitics
governmentality
homo oeconomicus
human capital theory
liberal art of government
liberalism
neoliberalism
political economy
social policy
state rationality
state theory
welfare state

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Foucault’s Collège de France lecture publications notableWork Naissance de la biopolitique
linked to: The Birth of Biopolitics