Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal LifeISBN: 978-0-7456-4101-0
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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