Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique

Thomas Lemke is Heisenberg Professor of Sociology with a focus on biotechnologies, nature, and society at Goethe University–Frankfurt/Main in Germany. His research interests include social and political theory, biopolitics, and social studies of genetic and reproductive technologies. His recent publications include Der medizinische Blick in die Zukunft: Gesellschaftliche Implikationen prädiktiver Gentests (co-authored with Regine Kollek) (Campus 2008); Governmentality: Current Issues and Future Challenges (co-edited with Ulrich Bröckling and Susanne Krasmann) (Routledge 2010); biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction (New York University Press 2011). You can email him at lemke@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

• Introduction The Subject and Power, Thomas Lemke; Chapter 1 An Analytics of Government, Thomas Lemke; Chapter 2 A Genealogy of the Modern State, Thomas Lemke; Chapter 3 Liberalism,Critique and Experience, Thomas Lemke; Chapter 5 From Foucault's Hypothesis to Studies of Governmentality, Thomas Lemke;