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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michel FoucaultPublish date:2020-07-10Pages:360
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226708904ISBN-10:022670890XUPC:9780226708904Book Category:Philosophy, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Movements, History & Theory, SociologyBook Topic:Post-StructuralismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCVRX59RZA

Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures-which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice-provide the missing link between Foucault's early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity.

Ranging broadly from Homer to the twentieth century, Foucault traces the early use of truth-telling in ancient Greece and follows it through to practices of self-examination in monastic times. By the nineteenth century, the avowal of wrongdoing was no longer sufficient to satisfy the call for justice; there remained the question of who the "criminal" was and what formative factors contributed to his wrong-doing. The call for psychiatric expertise marked the birth of the discipline of psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as its widespread recognition as the foundation of criminology and modern criminal justice. Published here for the first time, the 1981 lectures have been superbly translated by Stephen W. Sawyer and expertly edited and extensively annotated by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. They are accompanied by two contemporaneous interviews with Foucault in which he elaborates on a number of the key themes. An essential companion to Discipline and Punish, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling will take its place as one of the most significant works of Foucault to appear in decades, and will be necessary reading for all those interested in his thought.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226708904ISBN-10:022670890XUPC:9780226708904Book Category:Philosophy, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Movements, History & Theory, SociologyBook Topic:Post-StructuralismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCVRX59RZA
Brion, Fabienne: -

Fabienne Brion is professor in the School of Law and Criminology at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Harcourt, Bernard E.: -

Bernard E. Harcourt is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought.

Foucault, Michel: - Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian who held the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France. His many books in English include The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality, and "Discourse and Truth" and "Parrēsia," the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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