Wrong-doing, truth-telling: the function of avowal in justice
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 t…
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- Full title :Wrong-doing, truth-telling : the function of avowal in justice / Michel Foucault ; edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt ; translated by Stephen W. Sawyer.
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Presses Universitaires de Louvain, University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 344 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226922089, 0226922081
- oclc:ocn881183734
- LC Classification:K241.F7
- Dewey Decimal:340/.114
Table of Contents
Inaugural lecture : April 2, 1981 -- First lecture : April 22, 1981 -- Second lecture : April 28, 1981 -- Third lecture : April 29, 1981 -- Fourth lecture : May 6, 1981 -- Fifth lecture : May 13, 1981 -- Sixth lecture : May 20, 1981 -- Appendixes. Interview with André Berten : May 7, 1981 -- Interview with Christian Panier and Pierre Watté : May 14, 1981 -- Interview with Jean François and John De Wit : May 22, 1981 -- The Louvain lectures in context / Fabienne Brion, Bernard E. Harcourt.
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