Sandro Chignola, Ph.D, is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Padua (Italy), where he teaches History of Political Philosophy and Political Philosophy, and Visiting Professor at the UNSAM (Buenos Aires).

Oriented around the theme of a 'politics of philosophy', this book tracks the phases in which Foucault's genealogy of power, law, and subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at the College de France, as his focus shifted from sovereignty to governance.

Contents

To the English reader

Preface

Chapter 1. The impossible of the sovereign. Governmentality and liberalism

Chapter 2. Body Factories. Foucault, Marx

Chapter 3. The politics of the governed. Governmentality, forms of life, subjectivation

Chapter 4. Koinonikon zôon. Stoics and the other modernity

Chapter 5. 'Phantasiebildern'/'histoire fiction'. Weber, Foucault

Chapter 6. The courage of truth. Parrhesia and critique

Bibliography

Index