Foreword: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana Introduction: Arnold I. Davidson One: 7 January 1976 What is a lecture? — Subjugated knowledges. — Historical knowledge of struggles, genealogies, and scientific discourse. — Power, or what is at stake in genealogies. — Juridical and economic conceptions of power. — Power as repression and power as war. — Clausewitz’s aphorism inverted. Two: 14 January 1976 War and power. — Philosophy and the limits of power. — Law and royal power. — Law, domination, and subjugation. — Analytics of power: questions of method. — Theory of sovereignty. — Disciplinary power. — Rule and norm. Three: 21 January 1976 Theory of sovereignty and operators of domination. — War as analyzer of power relations. — The binary structure of society. — Historico-political discourse, the discourse of perpetual war. — The dialectic and its codifications. — The discourse of race struggle and its transcriptions. Four: 28 January 1976 Historical discourse and its supporters. — The counterhistory of race struggle. — Roman history and biblical history. — Revolutionary discourse. — Birth and transformation of racism. — Race purity and State racism: the Nazi transformation and the Soviet transformation. Five: 4 February 1976 Answer to a question on anti-Semitism. — Hobbes on war and sovereignty. — The discourse on the Conquest in England: royalists, parliamentarians, and Levellers. — The binary schema and political historicism. — What Hobbes wanted to eliminate. Six: 11 February 1976 Stories about origins. — The Trojan myth. — France’s heredity. — “Franco-Gallia.”–Invasion, history, and public right. — National dualism. — The knowledge of the prince. — Boulainvillier’s “Etat de la France.”–The clerk, the intendant, and the knowledge of the aristocracy. — A new subject of history. — History and constitution. Seven: 18 February 1976 Nation and nations. — The Roman conquest. — Grandeur and decadence of the Romans. — Boulainvilliers on the freedom of the Germans. — The Soissons vase. — Origins of feudalism. — Church, right, and the language of State. — Boulainvilliers: three generalizations about war: law of history and law of nature, the institutions of war, the calculation of forces. — Remarks on war. Eight: 25 February 1976: Boulainvilliers and the constitution of a historico-political continuum. — Historicism. — Tragedy and public right. — The central administration of history. — The problematic of the Enlightenment and the genealogy of knowledges. — The four operations of disciplinary knowledge and their effects. — Philosophy and science. — Disciplining knowledges. Nine: 3 March 1976 Tactical generalization of historical knowledge. — Constitution, Revolution, and cyclical history. — The savage and the barbarian. — Three ways of filtering barbarism: tactics of historical discourse. — Questions of method: the epistemological field and the antihistoricism of the bourgeoisie. — Reactivation of historical discourse during the Revolution. — Feudalism and the gothic novel. Ten: 10 March 1976 The political reworking of the idea of the nation during the Revolution: Sieyes. — Theoretical implications and effects on historical discourse. — The new history’s grids of intelligibility: domination and totalization. — Montlosier and Augustin Thierry. — Birth of the dialectic. Eleven: 17 March 1976 From the power of sovereignty to power over life. — Make live and let die. — From man as body to man as species: the birth of biopower. — Biopower’s fields of application. — Population. — Of death, and of the death of Franco in particular. — Articulations of discipline and regulation: workers’ housing, sexuality, and the norm. — Biopower and racism. — Racism: functions and domains. — Nazism. — Socialism. Course Summary Situating the Lectures: Alessandro Fontana and Mauro Bertani Index.
