Re: Reference Help

Robert
the original (as i understand it) of the Governmentality article is in
Foucault, M 1979, 'Governmentality', Ideology and Consciousness, vol. 6,
Autumn, pp. 5-21.

the quote you cite does indeed occur on page 11 of that version as you
have noted.
regards
Jill


Robert Grose wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>I wrote down the following quote a while back from an article or book by Foucault but I cannot remember the source.
>Could anyone help? I did not it as being a 1979 reference but have no idea if that refers to the original or translated
>version. I may have even got it from a book that refers to the Foucault quote.
>
>"The things which the government is concerned about are men, but men in their relations, their links, their
>imbrications with those other things which are wealth, resources, means of subsistence, the territory with its specific
>qualities, climate, irrigation, fertility, etc; men in their relation to that other kind of things which are customs,
>habits, ways of doing and think, etc; lastly, men in their relation to that other kind of things again which are
>accidents and misfortunes such as famine, epidemic, death, etc."(Foucault 1979, p.11)
>
>Regards
>
>Robert Grose
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