This book intends rather to highlight the nature of Foucault's archaeological approach, he refers himself to a "history of the order of things" and to a "thought of the Same", which classical knowledge focuses issues.

What traces has Christianity left in our lives? This question runs through Foucault's work, from research on modern confession to that on Antiquity. This book offers the first synthesis of it. Far from the usual ascetic image, Foucault makes Christianity a fragile relationship with the truth.

Fifteen articles, several of which are unpublished, enable an overview of the complete works of Montesquieu in all their dimensions. What does the genesis of his works tell us? Rediscover Montesquieu in his time and in the long haul of history; revealed by the succession of readings, sometimes contradictory, which have been given.

Against a simplistic view of Louis Althusser's and Michel Foucault’s anti-Hegelianism during the 1960s, the book goes through the early works of these philosophers to shed a light on the importance of Hegel for the elaboration of their problematic. the book aims to explain how they elaborated their thought by an immanent critique of Hegelianism.

We intend to show in this book how, at the end of the nineteenth century, the russian scientist and anarchist P. Kropotkin (1842-1921) waged a fight against social-darwinism, which used darwinian's natural selection model in order to justify social inequality.