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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9780226922089
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2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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