Hindess, Barry2015-12-101350-4630http://hdl.handle.net/1885/56603The paper addresses two issues arising from Foucault's work. One concerns his treatment of liberalism in The Birth of Biopolitics, which is probably more familiar through the work of the (mostly) British 'governmentality' school, and the other concerns aKeywords: government; history; liberalism; rationalization; theoretical study; Western perception Foucault; Government; History; LiberalismLiberalism: rationality of government and vision of history201010.1080/13504630.2010.5095712016-02-24