This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s theory of the state in relation to the social sciences. In this text, Skornicki deconstructs the pseudo-obviousness in Foucauldian thought, namely that Michel Foucault’s new approach in political philosophy rejects the importance of the State institution for an analysis of power relations to focus instead on the micro-relationships “coming from below” and forming a multiform and heterogeneous political field.