Nikolas Rose & Peter Miller 
Governing the Present 
Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life

The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the
social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn
upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This
volume will bring together key papers from their work for the first
time, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts
and ethos of this approach to the analysis of political power and
the state, and others that analyse specific domains of the conduct
of conduct, from marketing to accountancy, and from the
psychological management of organizations to the government of
economic life.

Bringing together empirical papers on the government of
economic, social and personal life, the volume demonstrates clearly
the importance of analysing these as conjoint phenomena rather than
separate domains, and questions some cherished boundaries between
disciplines and topic areas. Linking programmes and strategies for
the administration of these different domains with the formation of
subjectivities and the transformation of ethics, the papers cast a
new light on some of the leading issues in contemporary social
science modernity, democracy, reflexivity and
individualisation.

This volume will be indispensable for all those, from whatever
discipline in the social sciences, who have an interest in the
concepts and methods necessary for critical empirical analysis of
power relations in our present.

Daftar Isi

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

Tentang Penulis

Nik Rose is Convenor of the Department of Sociology and Peter Miller is Professor of Management Accounting at The London School of Economics and Political Science.