This book examines Foucault's political framework for connecting political authority with practices of freedom. It starts from the older Foucault's claim that w

The intellectual work of Michel Foucault has been an increasingly central component of social science in recent years. This is the first book to directly addres

This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As severa

Foucault is often thought to have a great deal to say about the history of madness and sexuality, but little in terms of a general analysis of government and th

Foucault saw the notion of parrhesia (truth-telling) as the most important factor for how governments could and should communicate with their people and vice ve