ABSTRACT
In Kant's work an interrogation takes roots, the only one that can be said to be truly philosophical, according to Foucault. This interrogation brings up the relation between thinking and present, the comprehensive mode of historicity, the constitution of the subject in the fold of a belonging that makes no room for preliminary forms of exteriority. Foucault takes a step beyond the analysis carried out in Surveiller et punir and the isolation of the disciplinary peak in which the triangulation of power, rights and law in penal devices of the classic age is abridged. Based on an accurate diagnosis of the status of politics in the current era, of the processes of subjectivation that intersect it, of the governmental devices that mark it, Foucault steps away from a political philosophy centred on the modern problem of the genesis and legitimation of the sovereign.
