Vincenzo Sorrentino
Foucault’s political thinking

This book explores the contribution of Foucault to an understanding of some essential features in our modern society – namely, political thinking and contemporary public debate. The “productive contradictions” in his diagnosis of our Zeigeist articulate the main features of a critical practice connecting ideas and events, self-government and power over the others, ethics and politics, knowledge and witnessing. Indeed, Foucault’s assumption is that in critics always is at stake the main existence of individuals: “there isn’t any other origin nor final point resisting to political power, except the relationship of the Self with himself”.