The Government of Life
Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism
Edited by Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORE 2014Introductionnt to bear on the problem of
Foucault's work,
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from the analysis of subjectivity
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ity (and so of ethics),