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Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self
Governing the Soul The Shaping of the Private Self Author:Nikolas S. Rose, Nikolas Rose Governing the Soul is now widely recognised as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analysing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This 'governmentality' perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, political theory, sociology and psychology and has generate... more »d much theoretical innovation and empirical investigation. This second edition: l New introduction setting out the methodological and conceptual bases of this approach; l New final chapter that considers some of the implications of recent developments in the government of subjectivity.« less