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When I visited the Foucault Archives at the Bancroft Library 1 (University of California, Berkeley), I came across an interview with Foucault from 1978, conducted by Colin Gordon and Paul Patton, which disclosed part of Foucault's intellectual itinerary and which seemed to have remained unpublished. Colin and Paul later confirmed that this text had never been published and we then all agreed to contact the Centre Michel Foucault in order to make this document more accessible through publication.One of the key interests of this text lies in the originality of Foucault's comments regarding his work published at the time, which he situates on a philosophical path that goes from phenomenology to a critique of Marxism. Over the course of this interview, Foucault discusses the "subjectivistic" reception of phenomenology in France, clarifies his relationship with structuralism, brings some precision to his critique of the mechanisms of power, takes a stance against the "politicization of human relationships" (politisation des rapports humains) that seeks to unmask the enemy among all dissident individuals, revisits the specific connections he has with the notion of resistance, brings out some similarities between Kant and Nietzsche, and discusses the controversial reception of his first books. The interview succeeds in accurately seizing a defining moment of the so-called genealogical period that was about to take a new direction, a few months later, on the heels of the coverage of the Iranian revolution, and then of the ethical turn to the "genealogy of ourselves" (généalogie de nous-mêmes), to which the interview already refers.The transcription of the recorded interview is available at the Bancroft Library under the call number "BANC MSS 90/136z, 1:2." The original pagination is indicated in square brackets. A few words that remain inaudible are indicated. Finally, the spontaneous nature of 1

This article responds to Philippe Mengue's claim that Deleuzian political philosophy is fundamentally hostile to democracy. After outlining key elements of the attitude towards democracy in Deleuze and Guattari's work, it addresses three major arguments put forward in support of this claim. The first relies on Deleuze's rejection of transcendence and his critical remarks about human rights; the second relies on the contrast between majoritarian and minoritarian politics outlined in A Thousand Plateaus; and the third relies on the antipathy of philosophy towards opinion as outlined in What is Philosophy? After responding to each of these arguments in turn, I outline an alternative and more positive account of Deleuze and Guattari's critical engagement with opinion by way of a contrast with Rawls. Contemporary Political Theory (2005) 4, 400-413.

Isaiah Berlin, 'Two concepts of liberty', in Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1969). '* Taylor, 'What's wrong with negative liberty?', p. 212. " See the passages cited in Genevieve Lloyd, 'Rousseau on reason, nature and women'. Metaphilosophy, 14 (1983).

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