ABSTRACT
Foucault, according to Taylor, identifies modes of subjugation poorly understood or thinly documented in previous critical accounts, but the Nietzschean perspective that governs this account, although supporting resistance to domination, severs the moral nerve of collective efforts to improve the modern condition. At a high level of generality, I concur with this judgment. And, as anyone would expect who has read his previous work, Taylor illuminates dark corners of social theory as he strives to dislodge the viable elements of Foucault’s thought from a perspective that seems to depreciate a politics of social improvement.
