He studies the normalization of discipline practices within the army, both to train individuals and to organize collective action.
Secondly, in 1984 and for a few years, Foucault developed his thinking about gov- ernmentality in a series of conferences and lectures based upon his reworking of the writings of the cameral sciences (the science of police): i.e. the concrete organization of society that took shape in France and Prussia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that combined a political vision based on the philosophy of Aufklärung (Enlightenment) with principles that claimed rationality in administering the affairs of the city (Senellart, 1995).