In/moralist Foucault

1975 is the year in which, with the publication of Surveiller et punir, Foucault proposes a model of microphysical analysis of power that seriously displaces the usual political analyses; this is also the year in which, in Spain, the death of dictator Franco will bring about crucial political changes, as is well known. The reception of these analyses in our country, rather than in the classrooms of the Faculties of Philosophy, was firstly carried out by other university work groups (architects, pedagogues, psychologists, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, jurists...), and also by some alternative social movements. In the work encounters that took place with several of these groups, the difficulties that blocked the correct intelligibility of their work were very diverse. It is in this context that the figure of the in/moralist emerges, as a way of access to the set of elementary gestures on which his discourse is based.