Foucault e o neolibaralismo

Can We Criticize Foucault?

by Daniel Zamora

Late in life, Michel Foucault developed a curious sympathy for neoliberalism.

Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault at GIP (Groupe d’information sur les prisons) press conference, January 17, 1972. Photo by Elie Kagan.

Since his death in 1984, Michel Foucault’s work has become a touchstone for the academic left worldwide. But in a provocative new book published in Belgium last month, a team of scholars led by sociologist Daniel Zamora raises probing questions about Foucault’s relationship with the neoliberal revolution that was just getting started in his last years.
In an interview this month with the new French journal Ballast, Zamora discusses the book’s fascinating findings and what they mean for radical thought today. Below is the text of the interview, translated from French by Seth Ackerman.
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