Share

Buy New

$17.76

List Price: $22.00
Save: $4.24 (19%)

In Stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Turn on 1-Click ordering for this browser

This item ships to France. Want it Monday, July 2? Order within and choose AmazonGlobal Priority Shipping at checkout. Learn more

Select delivery location

Buy Used

$12.04

+ $0.00 shipping

Select delivery location

Used: Like New | Details

Sold by BookOutlet USA

Turn on 1-Click ordering for this browser

Added to

Unable to add item to List. Please try again.

Other Sellers on Amazon

Add to Cart

$13.40
+ $29.99 shipping

Sold by: SuperBookDeals---

Add to Cart

$13.47
+ $32.08 shipping

Sold by: indoobestsellers

Add to Cart

$13.86

Sold by: booksXpress

Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 3 images

The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979 (Lectures at the College de France) Paperback – March 2, 2010

by Michel Foucault (Author)

13 customer reviews

See all 6 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

"Please retry"

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$17.76

Save an extra $1.09 when you apply this coupon.

Details

$1.09 extra savings coupon applied at checkout.

Details

Sorry. You are not eligible for this coupon.

Picador is proud to publish the sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984

The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault's lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the birth of a new governmental rationality--seeking maximum effectiveness by governing less and in accordance with the naturalness of the phenomena to be governed--Michel Foucault undertakes a detailed analysis of the forms of this liberal governmentality. In a direct and conversational tone, this book raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics.

Frequently bought together

+
+

Total price: $47.84

Buy the selected items together

This item:The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979 (Lectures at the College de… by Michel Foucault Paperback $17.76
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978 by Michel Foucault Paperback $12.32
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
"Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault Paperback $17.76
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details

Customers who bought this item also bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Michel Foucault

10

Paperback
$12.32
Michel Foucault

9

Paperback
$17.76
Michel Foucault

2

Paperback
$13.98
Wendy Brown

15

Paperback
$18.95
Michel Foucault

123

Paperback
$12.43
Michel Foucault

25

Paperback
$13.66

Sponsored products related to this item (What's this?)

Page 1 of 1Start overPage 1 of 1

Feedback

Michel Foucault

Hardcover
$38.00
Feedback

Rivera Sun

Putting heart in resistance, love in revolution. Taught nationwide in social justice, activist and literature classes. Soul medicine for the people.

53

Kindle Edition
$8.99
Feedback

Tony Robert Cochran

"A 21st Century Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault Behind Bars." - Alexander Verney-Elliott, Being & Alien

Paperback
$29.99
Feedback

Nicholas Mayor

A step by step practical guide to implementing stoic philosophy and face the modern life challenges with joy and wisdom.

10

Just Released

Kindle Edition
$3.99
Feedback

Damon Zahariades

Are you fed up with being taken for granted? Learn how to set boundaries, stand your ground, and inspire others' respect in the process!

97

Paperback
$8.90
Feedback

Aston Sanderson

80% of the average person's inner mental chatter is negative. But everyone has the power to change theirs. Don't let negative thinking hold you back!

19

Kindle Edition
$4.99
Feedback

Tony Robert Cochran

Philosophical and personal analysis and critique of policing, mass incarceration and State power, written by an ex-prisoner.

Just Released

Kindle Edition
$6.99

Special offers and product promotions

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists.” ―The New York Times Book Review

“Foucault has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions. . . . He gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture.” ―The New York Review of Books

“Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are. . . . [His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture.” ―The Nation

About the Author

MICHEL FOUCAULT, acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. Translated by Graham Burchell.

Product details

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (March 2, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312203411
ISBN-13: 978-0312203412
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 13 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #50 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Social Philosophy
- #113 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Political
- #242 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Commentary & Opinion

Would you like to tell us about a lower price?
If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?

NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE

Be the first video

Your name here

Sponsored products related to this item (What's this?)

Page 1 of 1Start overPage 1 of 1

Feedback

Michel Foucault

Hardcover
$38.00
Feedback

Tony Robert Cochran

"A 21st Century Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault Behind Bars." - Alexander Verney-Elliott, Being & Alien

Paperback
$29.99
Feedback

Orna Gadish

Delve into the beauty of Postmodernism. This powerful read is guaranteed to blow you away.

15

Kindle Edition
$5.99
Feedback

Aston Sanderson

80% of the average person's inner mental chatter is negative. But everyone has the power to change theirs. Don't let negative thinking hold you back!

19

Kindle Edition
$4.99
Feedback

Mike Bhangu

Amazon best-seller (2018-05-04). A politically incorrect guide. Discover why religions war, how they mislead the people, and the truths they conceal.

11

Kindle Edition
$9.99
Feedback

M. Bhangu

Discover why the cost to live is so high, and why you struggle to survive.

Kindle Edition
$6.49
Feedback

Tony Robert Cochran

Philosophical and personal analysis and critique of policing, mass incarceration and State power, written by an ex-prisoner.

Kindle Edition
$6.99

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars

3 star (0%)

2 star (0%)

Write a customer review

See all 13 customer reviews

Top customer reviews

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

An analysis of U.S. and German Neo-Liberalism

August 19, 2009

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

This book is a collection of lectures that Foucault gave. They are focused on the development of Neo-liberalism after World War II, in Germany and the U.S. Foucault traces the development of this theory and how how it differs in Germany and the U.S. respectively. The book being a collection of his lectures, it is at times choppy when reading, because at times the recordings were not able to pick up what was being said. The editor of the book does a wonderful job at acknowledging these parts, but I did not find them detracting from the work. The editor also wrote the lectures in a way that reproduces the lecture so that one can close their eyes and easily imagine themselves there listing to them. The analysis of Neo-Liberalism in this book is the best that I have ever read, and the depth of thought is amazing. It is not an easy read, but one that anyone interested in theory or Foucault should read. It is enjoyable and worth every penny spent.

8 people found this helpful

Great read with a wide range of theoretical applicability.

August 16, 2016

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

Very good book, very actual.

afterthoughts on the dialectics between "external politics" and "internal politics" in Europe and China

April 2, 2010

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

I am a historian doing researches on the economic and legal development in Chinese early modern history. Reading Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics is a wonderful experience, I learned a lot and cannot help but to think that the dialectics between "external politics" and "internal politics" in Europe from 17thc on may probably constitute an interesting and plausible comparative framework against the deployment of statecraft project in the sixteenth to eighteenth century China.

7 people found this helpful

August 16, 2014

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

Excellent copy, as described

September 27, 2014

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

Fast, honest.

Amazon Customer

His most practical political analysis

May 23, 2017

Format: Paperback

This is a book that I have found myself going back to over the years I have owned it, as only slowly did it's importance become apparent. This is partly its weakness, like many Focault books, it works sideways and sometimes seems to go in circles, and it is easy to become lost in the heavy verbage. However, if you can hang on, you will find, like most of his books, a logic structure at work that suddenly hits you with its weight. This book is that in its, for its time then and now, ground breaking analysis of neoliberalism/free market fundamentalism. It follows from the Security, Territory, Population lecture in analyzing the development of the idea of political economy and traces its praxis. In this book we see that course run to the most modern period Focault is said to have covered, looking at the development of post WW2 political economy, specifically the neo (ordo) liberals of the West, specifically Germany and U.S., covering ideologues like Hyek, Friedman, Mises, and others.

The major drawback is that it feels that the actual title, Birth of Biopolitics is never fully connected to the course material, leaving a sense of a project unfinished. Otherwise this is a very practical political analysis, a college course in free market fundamentalism and its relevancy to our world. Should be read in conjunction with the books 'The Shock Doctrine', and 'Dark Money', as well as the lecture before it, 'Security, Territory, Population'. You study his style of investigation and analysis as much as the actual topic covered.

One person found this helpful

Daniel T. O'hara

September 15, 2008

Format: Hardcover

These lectures demonstrate persuasively that the attempt to master life, especially human life, is not the legacy of Nazism or sci-fi nightmares, but the spontaneous consequence of economic liberalism in its modern form. The idea that government should intervene in society but only to establish, strengthen, and extend the market and its principles to all areas of society means that the population must be managed and even remediated or improved to ensure its members can participate productively in the market. Foucault ends these lectures, after this important demonstration, by showing how the idea of civil society is both a complement to this vision of the market economy and the motor of history that leads to potentially radical changes in politics. This book is a must-read for all serious students of Foucault, critical theory, and contemporary politics.

35 people found this helpful

Brilliant and disquieting

June 14, 2011

Format: Paperback

Michel Foucault at his best reveals mechanisms once considered radically invasive that now now permeate the "basic" structure of Western government and public institutions. Here, his discussions on the uncomfortable common grounds between centrist or left-of-centre Democracies and totalitarian states turns on the former's absorption of Frankfurt School economics and a general sort of self-absolving historical pessimism. What begins as a revulsion with Fascism and National Socialism supposedly ends with a deflating realization that they are only the maximalist endpoints of some very "logical" lines of inquiry in the west. These include "How can we expand 'the markets' to encompass the entire body politic?" and "How can we use the markets to scrutinize the population's behaviour while making the markets themselves inscrutable?" and "How can we apply this process to any number of political and social organs?" It is only the methods that differ and even then, only some of the time.

This book contains Foucault's usual hang-ups. He does not investigate gender, ethnicity, poverty or non-European theatres seriously. But it is still essential reading for the decade we are in. Jonah Goldberg had no reason to write "Liberal Fascism" because everything he could have hoped to say about the subject is right here.

2 people found this helpful

Most recent customer reviews

Published 1 year ago

michel Foucault

Michel Foucault was the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. These lectures are the finest examples of his ideas as they formed into the masterworks of his books.Read more

Published on December 19, 2009

A must read in our changing world

I bought this book in French when it was first published in 2004. At the time the topic meant very little to me in that we were living in a world that had re-elected GWB and...Read more

Published on March 10, 2009

Long awaited translation

A book that was due to be translated in English and provides the first attempt of Foucault to cirscumscribe the neoliberal enterprise.

Published on October 24, 2008

robert hollinger

foucault, birth of biopolitics

this is an important book. thanks for sending it so quickly and at an unbeatable price!

Published on October 6, 2008

Set up an Amazon Giveaway

The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979 (Lectures at the College de France)

Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway

This item: The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979 (Lectures at the College de France)

Set up a giveaway

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Michel Foucault

10

Paperback
$12.32
Michel Foucault

123

Paperback
$12.43
Michel Foucault

89

Paperback
$12.65
Michel Foucault

25

Paperback
$13.66
Michel Foucault

9

Paperback
$17.76
Michel Foucault

2

Paperback
$13.98

English United States

Conditions of Use
Privacy Notice
Interest-Based Ads
© 1996-2018, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates