The political rationality framing extends Foucault beyond what he himself wrote

Evidence

In the Collège de France lectures on neoliberalism, Foucault uses the descriptor “political rationality” rather infrequently. More often, he speaks of neoliberalism as “governmental reason,” “governmentality,” “governmental rationality,” or “economic rationality.” Above all, he identifies it as “a new programming of liberal governmentality,” a reformulation of the relations between state, economy, and subject posited and produced by liberalism. Thus, I am pressing much more from the formulation of neoliberalism as a political rationality than Foucault did. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 231

Categorization

• XREF: Shows Brown’s honest scholarly method — marking where she diverges from and extends the source rather than claiming fidelity. — connects to: Neoliberalism was only emergent in Foucault’s time, not yet hegemonic — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 90; Foucault’s political coordinates cannot capture neoliberalism’s effects on democracy — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 146; Neoliberal governability extends beyond what Foucault imagined through maximum freedom — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 215 (+1 more)