Three Ways Human Beings are Conducted, According to Foucault

Three Ways Human Beings are Conducted, According to Foucault

The government of men: an activity that undertakes to conduct individuals.

Pastoral power: concentrates the activity of conducting individuals in religious institutions.

Governmentality: an activity that is located in the direction of political institutions.

See Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population (Picador, 2007), xix (introduction by Arnold Davidson).

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