Nikolas Rose

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Nikolas Rose (2015)

Nikolas Rose (* 1947 ) is a British sociologist and social theorist. He has been Professor of Sociology at King's College London since 2012 . Prior to that, he held the position of James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics . He was also director of the Center for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society (BIOS) in London.

In 2020 Rose was elected to the British Academy .

life and work

After studying biology, Rose devoted herself to sociological and historical topics. He mainly studied the social effects of psychiatry and psychopharmacology. He also researched the genealogy of subjectivity, the history of empiricism within sociology, and the rationality behind political power structures. He acted as editor of the journal Economy and Society and is still co-editor of BioSocieties , an interdisciplinary science journal.

Rose grew up in a Jewish family in London. His brother Steven P. Rose is a professor at the Open University .

In 1989 Rose founded the History of the Present Research Network , an international network of researchers whose work is heavily influenced by Michel Foucault .

Important publications

Books

  • The Psychological Complex. Psychology, Politics and Society in England, 1869-1939 . 1984
  • Governing the soul. The Shaping of the Private Self . 1989, 2nd edition 1999
  • Inventing Our Selves. Psychology, Power and Personhood . 1996
  • Powers of Freedom. Reframing Political Thought . 1999
  • The Politics of Life Itself. Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century . 2006
  • with Peter Miller: Governing the Present. Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life . 2008

His books are available in the following languages: Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Romanian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Important chapters in anthologies

  • At Risk of Madness . In: T. Baker and J. Simon (Eds.): Embracing Risk. The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2001, pp. 209-237
  • Society, madness, and control . In: A. Buchanan (Ed.): The Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, pp. 3-25
  • Power and psychological techniques . In: Y. Bates and R. House (Eds.): Ethically Challenged Professions . PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye 2003, pp. 27-46.
  • The neurochemical self and its anomalies . In: R. Ericson (Ed.): Risk and Morality . University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. 407-437.
  • Becoming Neurochemical Selves . In: Nico Stehr (Ed.): Biotechnology, Commerce and Civil Society . Transaction Press, 2004
  • with Paul Rabinow: Introduction to The Essential Foucault. Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 . New Press, New York 2004
  • with Carlos Novas: Biological Citizenship . In: Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier (Eds.): Global Assemblages. Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems . Blackwell, Oxford 2005, pp. 439-463.
  • with Andrew Barry and Thomas Osborne: Writing the History of the Present . In: Jonathan Joseph (Ed.): Social Theory. A reader . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2005 (Reprint of selections from Introduction to Foucault and Political Reason , 1996.)

Important articles in scientific journals

  • The biology of culpability. Pathological identities in a biological culture . In: Theoretical Criminology . Volume 4, No. 1, 2000, pp. 5-34.
  • with Carlos Novas: Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual . In: Economy and Society . Special Issue on configurations of risk, Volume 29, No. 4, 2000, pp. 484-513.
  • The politics of life itself . Theory, Culture and Society . Volume 18, No. 6, 2001, pp. 1-30.
  • Control . In: Fronesis . 2003, No. 14-15, pp. 82-101.
  • Neurochemical selves . In: Society . Volume 41, No. 1, November / December 2003, pp. 46-59.
  • with Thomas Osborne: Spatial Phenomenotechnics. Making space with Charles Booth and Patrick Geddes . In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space . Volume 22, 2004. pp. 209-228.

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personal data
SURNAME Rose, Nikolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist and social theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947