In his unpublished lecture Du gouvernement des vivants (1980), Foucault introduced the theme of the anarchaeology which discusses the government of men by the truth. This article seeks to situate the anarchaeology within Foucault's most important contribution for the debate with the political theory: the governmentality studies. In giving a higher degree of complexity to his investigations about power, the anarchaeology makes possible rethinking the causal strength of discourses in political practice as well as establishing interlocutions within the debate about liberal democracies and on the constitution of the democratic subject within its reflexive domain.
political theory; liberal democracy; subjectivity; governmentality; anarchaeology