Sicherheit, Territorium, Bevölkerung. Geschichte der Gouvernementalität I

This book is based on a series of lectures given by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France between 1977 and 1978.

It delves into the concept of 'governmentality,' which Foucault defines as the ensemble of institutions, procedures, analyses, and reflections that allow for the exercise of a specific form of power.

The lectures examine how power is exercised through mechanisms of security, the management of territory, and the control of populations.

Foucault's work here expands our understanding of power beyond traditional state politics to include various forms of social control and the production of knowledge that guides individual and collective behavior.