This book examines Foucault''s political framework for connecting political authority with practices of freedom. It starts from the older Foucault''s claim that where there is obedience there cannot be government by truth. Then it shows how this claim runs like a red thread through his entire life project.

This book examines Foucault''s political framework for connecting political authority with practices of freedom. It starts from the older Foucault''s claim that where there is obedience there cannot be government by truth. Then it shows how this claim runs like a red thread through his entire life project.