Jivko made reference to this book, but having just finished reading it I figured I could clarify his comments a bit. The book, by Michael Clifford, isn't a collection of Foucault's work, it's an application of it to political science. Following Foucault's readings of ancient texts as manuals for living in 'The History of Sexuality Vo. II and III', he reads Mills' 'On Liberty' as a text which suggest an ethical manner of conducting oneself. His thesis, in a nutshell, is that modern political identity, especially in America, is animated by the icon of the autonomous rights-bearing individual (or Savage Noble, to reverse Rousseau's famous character- he supports this analogy with early American accounts of Old World nobility who joined Native American tribes or otherwise immersed themselves in the 'wild') and that the contractual theory of power which holds this individual as its nucleus conceals the workings of disciplinary mechanisms. The work is very informative for those with an interest in political theory, but there is very little new insight on the nature of Foucault's work, with the exception of some original consideration of 'enunciative modalities'.
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