Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Liberal government and techniques of the self -- Chapter 2. Governing "advanced" liberal democracies -- Chapter 3. Liberalism, socialism and democracy: variations on a governmental theme -- Chapter 4. The promise of liberalism and the performance of freedom -- Chapter 5. Security and vitality: drains, liberalism and power in the nineteenth century -- Chapter 6. Lines of communication and spaces of rule -- Chapter 7. Assembling the school -- Chapter 8. Governing the city: liberalism and early modern modes of governance -- Chapter 9. Risk and responsibility -- Chapter 10. Foucault, government and the enfolding of authority -- Chapter 11. Revolutions within: self-government and self-esteem -- Chapter 12. Foucault in Britain -- Index.