Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: reframing political thought -- 1 Governing -- Governmentality -- Rationalities -- Intelligibility -- Governable spaces -- Territorializing governmental thought -- Spatializing the gaze of the governors -- Modelling the space of government -- Governable subjects -- Translation -- Technologies -- Diagnosis -- 2 Freedom -- Freedom -- The history of freedom -- Freedom as discipline -- Freedom as solidarity -- Freedom as autonomy -- Consumption -- Therapeutics -- The politics of freedom today -- 3 The social -- The moral technologies of discipline -- Disciplining the colonies -- The invention of the social -- Government from the social point of view -- The social citizen -- Beyond the social state -- 4 Advanced liberalism -- Marketizing economic life -- Fragmenting the social into a multitude of markets -- Experts and bureaucrats -- Beyond planning -- Accounting and accountability -- The audit explosion -- The shadow of the law -- Employees into entrepreneurs -- A new prudentialism -- From disciplinary pedagogy to perpetual training -- Making citizens consumers -- Active citizenship? -- 5 Community -- Diagnosis -- Political subjectivity -- Communitarianism -- Between security and autonomy -- The community-civility game -- Technologies of community -- Morality or ethics? -- One community or many? -- Fixing identities or unworking identities? -- 6 Numbers -- The social history of numbers -- Undemocratic and democratic numbers -- Calculating authorities: the census -- Counting subjects: representation and democracy -- Calculating citizens: numbers and subjectivity -- An economy of numbers -- Figuring out democracy -- 7 Control -- Inclusion: circuits of security -- The securitization of identity -- The securitization of habitat -- The fortress city.

Exclusion: circuits of insecurity -- Problematizing exclusion -- Managing risk -- From dependency to activity -- Technologies of activity -- The penal-welfare complex -- Diagrams of control -- Conclusion: beyond government -- Bibliography -- Index.

A 1999 review of governmentality literature, derived from Foucault, which broke new ground in ethics and politics.

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