ABSTRACT
Emile's political education is very different from that of the Polish boy, or for that matter the French, or any other European. Emile does not learn anything at school, either in its idealized Polish form where it produces the patriotic Pole or in the actual French where it produces the bourgeois, or in any other. The democratic government is suitable for small states, aristocratic government for medium-sized states, and monarchic government for large states. Rousseau's epilogue to Emile says either that the education of the chapter was fatally flawed or that man himself is fatally flawed and that his education, even if the best conceivable, counts for nothing. The Rousseau describes the ideal polity of the Social Contract as a democracy confirms that what he intended to describe in this chapter was the government of a small state. Foucault represents this very differently from Rousseau, that is, as a technology of disciplinary power secularized in different ways in modern society.
