Biopower, Governmentality, Liberalism and the Genealogy of the Modern Subject

Abstract

We are very pleased to guest edit and publish this special edition of Foucault Studies entitled Michel Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France 1978-1980. Security, Territory, Population; The Birth of Biopolitics; On the Government of the Living. As pronounced in the editorial, this special edition contains three articles, each devoted to discussing one yearly series of Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France in the period ranging from 1977 to 1980.