Security, Territory, Population : Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78

This new title in the "College de France Lecture Series" charts a new development in Michel Foucault's thinking.

Starting from the notion of 'bio-power' developed in the previous 1976 course, Society Must be Defended, Foucault explores the birth of the modern nation state in the Eighteenth Century through an analysis of its adminstration of institutionalized power relations, beginning with the fundamental technologies of security.