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Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4100-3
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272 pages
April 2008, Polity
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Acknowledgements vi

1 Introduction: Governing Economic and Social Life 1

2 Governing Economic Life 26

3 Political Power beyond the State: Problematics of Government 53

4 The Death of the Social? Re-figuring the Territory of Government 84

5 Mobilizing the Consumer: Assembling the Subject of Consumption 114

6 On Therapeutic Authority: Psychoanalytical Expertise under Advanced Liberalism 142

7 Production, Identity and Democracy 173

8 Governing Advanced Liberal Democracies 199

Bibliography 219

Index 239

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