How far can the market become the figure and the mode of rationality for state and society, the political and the social? This question did not contour the ambition of liberalism either as an economic or a political doctrine; the former sought only to free the economic subject, the latter to free the political and civil subject. Neither raised the market itself to a principle of all life or of government. 31 The distinctiveness of neoliberalism, for Foucault, is that it “generalizes the economic form of the market” or “generalizes the ‘enterprise’ form within the social body,” producing an “economization of the entire social field.”

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 105