After virtù and fortuna: Foucault on the government of economic events

Distinktion

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-104

  Folkers, Andreas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anticipatory politics; Financial crisis; Foucault; Governmentality studies; Machiavelli; Normalization; Security apparatus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950324169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21599149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2013.779288     Document Type: Article

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