Governing the Present : Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life (Paperback)

Acknowledgements vi

1 Introduction: Governing Economic and Social Life 1

2 Governing Economic Life 26

3 Political Power beyond the State: Problematics of Government 53

4 The Death of the Social? Re-figuring the Territory of Government 84

5 Mobilizing the Consumer: Assembling the Subject of Consumption 114

6 On Therapeutic Authority: Psychoanalytical Expertise under Advanced Liberalism 142

7 Production, Identity and Democracy 173

8 Governing Advanced Liberal Democracies 199

Bibliography 219

Index 239