In addition to the large four-volume edition of Dits et Ecrits, a comprehensive edition of Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France is currently being published. In these lectures, a new Foucault can be discovered: In addition to the trenchant oral presentation of the subject matter, which clarifies his path of thought, there is always an effort to update, to analyze the present. The edition of the 1975/76 lecture In Defense of Society, with which this edition began, follows manuscripts and tape recordings. Here, Foucault explores the extent to which power relations can be analyzed on the model of war. His remarks, polemical in both senses of the word, can be summed up in the question of whether, in a reversal of Clausewitz, politics is the continuation of war by other means.