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Foucault zu Neoliberalismus, Frankfurter und Freiburger Schule

„[..] Schematically, the problem for the Frankfurt School was to determine what new social rationality could be defined and formed in such a way as to nullify economic irrationality. The decipherment of this irrational rationality of capitalism was also the problem for the Freiburg School, but people like Eucken, Röpcke and others try to resolve it in a different way, not by rediscovering, inventing, or defining the new form of social rationality, but by defining, or redefining, or rediscovering, the economic rationality that will make it possible to nullify the social irrationality of capitalism. So, there were two opposed ways, if you like, for solving the same problem.” (106, The Birth of Biopolitics)