Naissance de la cybernétique. Ripensare l’analisi foucaultiana del neoliberalismo da un punto di vista epistemologico. (Tre affondi per un lavoro a venire)

The aim of this work is to articulate an epistemological critique of Foucaultian analysis of neoliberalism. It proceeds along three main lines: i) firstly, I put the “history of governmentality” articulated by the French philosopher to the test of what I call “epistemological history of the concept of government” [EHCG]; ii) then, I try to show what can be gained by an analysis of neoliberalism examined through the lenses of the EHCG compared to the Foucaultian reconstruction; iii) finally, I try to outline the way in which the EHCG proposes to solve some issue inherent to Foucault’s reflection.