{"product_id":"governing-the-present-9780745641003","title":"Governing the Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume brings together for the first time key papers from the the work of influential social theorists Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of their approach to the analysis of political power and the state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A convincing and disturbing account of the hegemonic power of the economy, government and public life in our modern world.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This book explores the nature and form of governmentality in an intriguing and challenging way. It asks how it is that some things appear as problems that need management and regulation. It explores what constitutes the basis of these ‘problems’ and the processes which underpin them. This is sociology at its best and the results are fascinating.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eUlrich Beck, \u003ci\u003eUniversität Munchen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Miller and Rose present analyses of the expanded modern controls over, and recognition of, the individual. The imagery comes from Foucault, the studies focus on the professional analysts, and the conclusions suggest comparisons with earlier time periods. The book will interest all those concerned with modern rationalized individualism.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Meyer, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Stanford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Over the last decade Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose have opened up a new continent in the social sciences, the material and discursive constitution of the modern individual human subject. \u003ci\u003eGoverning the Present\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant account of this exploration. After it, social theory will never be the same again.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichel Callon, \u003ci\u003eCentre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Governing Economic and Social Life 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Governing Economic Life 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Political Power beyond the State: Problematics of Government 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Death of the Social? Re-figuring the Territory of Government 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Mobilizing the Consumer: Assembling the Subject of Consumption 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 On Therapeutic Authority: Psychoanalytical Expertise under Advanced Liberalism 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Production, Identity and Democracy 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Governing Advanced Liberal Democracies 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 239\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404378874199,"sku":"9780745641003","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/governing-the-present-9780745641003","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}