Foucault's essay on governmentality argued that a certain mentality, which he. After Foucault's programmatic declarations aimed at "cutting off the head of the king in political thought" and analyzing power outside the "discursive and legal model", Governmentality without truth: essay on the role of Foucauldian thought in a post-war society -truth. Governmentality analysis does not replace Foucault's earlier understanding of power. His method of analysis is similar to that he used to study political discourse and governmentality. Foucault's reflections on political discourse and governmentality are complemented by essays from internationally renowned scholars. United by the common influence of the Foucauldian approach, they explore the many modern manifestations of government: reason of state, the police, liberalism, security, the social economy, insurance, governmentality. knowledge-power. post-structuralism. technocracy. In Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy Oxford University Press, 2019, Jeffrey Friedman explores the important but often neglected issue of technocracy in democratic systems. He notes that although political theorists have been concerned with,