Néolibéralisme, théorie politique et pensée critique

Abstract

This article aims at highlighting the critical potentialities inscribed at the heart of neoliberal rationality, which has been established as radically opposed to the raison d'État through the idea that "one always governs too much". Foucault's analyses in The Birth of Biopolitics are particularly attentive to this theme : indeed, using economic reasoning and the instruments of economic science as critical weapons in order to deconstruct the traditional political philosophy and to demystify its emancipatory pretenses, Foucault presents neoliberalism as one of the main contemporary embodiments of the critical tradition. Hence, it is outside political philosophy, moral philosophy or theory of law that we have to search if we want to resist neoliberalism. © 2013 Presses de Sciences Po. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.