Rethinking the School is one of the first major applications of Foucault's genealogical method to the school system, and will be widely debated by educationalists, policy-makers and those interested in the interaction of government and subjectivity.

Ian Hunter is a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Culture and Government, and co-author of Accounting for the Humanities and On Pornography.

Editor's introduction
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Principled positions
2 Social governance and spiritual guidance
3 The pastoral bureaucracy
4 Unprincipled equality
5 The sphere and duties of critique
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index