Authors:Michel Foucault, Nikolas Rose, Paul Rabinow, Nikolas
Publisher: New Press, The
Keywords: foucault, essential
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-08-22
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1565848284
ISBN-13: 9781565848283

The latest book in The New Press’s Essential series collects key texts from the influential French philosopher. Few philosophers have had as significant an impact on contemporary thought as Michel Foucault. His complete uncollected writings, under the title Dits et écrits, were published in French in 1994 and in a three-volume series from The New Press that brought the most important of these works—courses, articles, and interviews, many of them translated into English for the first time—to American readers. Now, Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose have collected the best pieces from t

Author: Nikolas Rose
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: thought, political, reframing, freedom, powers
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521659051
ISBN-13: 9780521659055

This book presents an impressive synthesis of an important and influential school of thought, derived from Foucault’s writings on governmentality, which extends into new and challenging domains. Nikolas Rose ranges across the many fields on which governmentality theory has been been brought to bear, including expertise, culture and government, economic management, psychology, and community. Unusually, he suggests that freedom is not the opposite of government but one of its key inventions and most significant resources. His book will serve as an intelligent introduction to governmentalit

Author: Nikolas Kozloff
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: new, rise, america, south, revolution
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0230617549
ISBN-13: 9780230617544

The highly-regarded author of the first biography of Hugo Chavez brings his considerable expertise to assess the left-leaning regimes in South America. In this insightful and timely examination, Nikolas Kozloff discusses the hot-button issues of energy integration, free trade agendas, culture wars and South America’s emerging role as a new political bloc, and how these tectonic political shifts will affect the United States. As Venezuela opposes U.S. militarization in the Andes and Bolivia fights a U.S.-fueled drug war, Kozloff looks to the future and what the U.S. must do to maint

Author: Rose Nikolas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: psychology, studies, history, cambridge, power, selves, inventing, personhood
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1998-12-28
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521646073
ISBN-13: 9780521646079

Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other "psy" disciplines have played a key role in "inventing our selves," changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers, doctors, therapists and a multitude of other authorities. These mutations are intrinsically linked to recent changes in ways of understanding an

Author: Nikolas Kompridis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: romanticism, philosophical
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-08-02
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0415256437
ISBN-13: 9780415256438

Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of specially-written articles by world-class philosophers explores the contribution of romantic thought to topics such as freedom, autonomy, and subjectivity; memory and imagination; pluralism and practical reasoning; modernism, scepticism and irony; art and ethics; and cosmology, time and technology.While the roots of romanticism are to be found in early German idealism, Philosophical Romanticism shows that i

Author: Nikolas Rose
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: twenty, first, century, formation, subjectivity, power, life, itself, biomedicine, politics
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0691121915
ISBN-13: 9780691121918

For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of recent developments in the life sciences and biomedicine that have led to the widespread politicization of medicine, human life, and biotechnology. Avoiding the hype of popular science and the pessimism

Author: Nikolas Coupland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: topics, sociolinguistics, key, identity, language, variation, style
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-08-27
List price: $94.99
ISBN-10: 0521853036
ISBN-13: 9780521853033

Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains how speakers project different social identities and create different social relationships through their style choices, and how speech-style and social context inter-relate. Style therefore refers to the wide range of strategic actions and performances that speakers engage in, to construct themselves and their social lives. Coupland draws on and