1978年,米歇尔·福柯在法兰西学院做了以《安全、领土与人口》为题目的系列讲座。《安全、领土与人口》在福柯思想生涯中的地位相当特殊。不同于以往的作品,福柯在研究中首次尝试大量引证希腊、罗马和早期基督教的古典文献,突破了他以往对近现代的论述边界。一方面,这本书可以被视为福柯研究领域和模式的转向,即研究重心由微观的权力作用机制,转移到更为宏大的国家治理术;另一方面,作为福柯系列演讲中论述最复杂、最精致、争议也最大的著作之一,它忠实 In 1978, Michel Foucault conducted a series of lectures on “Safety, Territory and Population” at the Faculty of Law in France. “Safety, Territory and Population” occupies quite a special place in Foucault’s career. Different from the previous works, Foucault made the first attempt in his research to cite a large number of classical documents of Greece, Rome and early Christianity, breaking through his previous boundaries of modernity. On the one hand, this book can be seen as a turning point in Foucault’s field of study and mode, in which the focus of research shifts from a micro-power mechanism of action to a more ambitious national governance; on the other hand, as discussed in the Foucault’s series of speeches It is one of the most complex, exquisite and controversial writings, it is faithful