Front Cover -- Foucault & the Political -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The refusal of what we are -- Unbearable lightness and heaviness -- Difficulties of Foucault's work -- Author and oeuvre -- Biographical sketch -- 2 Foucault's Critical Ethos -- Foucault and Kant -- Foucault and Nietzsche -- 3 The Analysis of Limits -- Analysis of the limits of discourse -- Analysis of the mutual limits of power and knowledge -- Limits of subjects -- Governmentality -- 4 The Limits of Humanism -- The costs of truth -- Myth of humanization -- Prophet of entrapment? -- 5 Foucault's Regicide of Political Philosophy -- Political philosophy as critique -- Political theories as governmental rationalities -- The limits of Foucault's critics -- 6 Transgression and Aesthetics -- Transgressive art -- Aesthetic relation to oneself -- Foucault's aesthetics -- Aesthetic autonomy -- 7 Theoretical Transgression of Limits -- Power and resistance -- Ethic of permanentresistance -- Truth and thought at the limit -- 8 Practical Transgression of Limits -- Transgressive practices -- Practices of the self and politics -- 9 Foucault in Contemporary Political Theory -- Feminism -- Foucault and Habermas -- Radical liberal democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.