Michel Foucault, de la « pensée du dehors » au « capital humain »

Even a summary and partial investigation of the immense literature that has been devoted to Michel Foucault reveals that it is largely based on a decontextualization of his work. In order to contextualize it, I will defend three arguments: 1) the rejection of “dialectical thought”, of which phenomenology is the most recent case according to Foucault, must be considered as structuring all his work, from Madness and civilization to The History of sexuality and to the 1979 course devoted to liberalism and neoliberalism. 2) This posture constitutes a position taken with regard to the principles that structure modernity. To dialectical thought, Foucault