Genealogy, Critique and the Public-Private Dichotomy

This second introductory chapter presents the distinctive theoretical perspective of the book, and its aim to bridge Marxist and Foucauldian traditions of critiquing power, in more detail. It emphasizes, in particular, the Foucauldian concern with the ways in which the public-private dichotomy has been constructed over time and explains the genealogical approach to history as a series of governmental problematizations that the book adopts.