Nuclear winter

Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed, and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault was not a direct witness of these years, his work on neoliberalism is nonetheless prescient: the question of Foucault's conceptual apparatus has acquired a central, even dominant position for a subsequent segment of the world's intellectual Left. However, as the contributions to this volume demonstrate, Foucault's…