3 march 1971

pp. 149-166

in: Michel Foucault, Lectures on the will to know and Oedipal knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

IN THE STRUGGLE UNDERWAY in the seventh and sixth centuries, money appeared, following the example of Corinth, as a subtle and detailed instrument; while the land was being divided up, it allowed indebtedness to be maintained along with all the inequalities linked to it; it thus enabled political power (scarcely shifted) to be kept in the hands of the wealthy property owners.