Foucault on Governmentality and Liberalism: The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978--1979 by Michel Foucault, trans. Graham Burchell Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 346 Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977--1978 by Michel Foucault, trans. Graham Burchell Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 401 Export

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