“What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and
to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had
to be simple mediators or arbitrators). What characterizes the
juridical act, the process or the procedure in the broad sense, is the
regulated development of a dispute. And the intervention of judges,
their opinion or decision, is only ever an episode in this
development. What defines the juridical order is the way in which
one confronts one another, the way in which one struggles. The rule
and the struggle, the rule in the struggle, this is the juridical.”
- Michel Foucault Penal Theories and Institutions is the title Michel
Foucault gave to the lectures he delivered at the Collège de France
from November 1971 to March 1972. In these lectures Michel Foucault
presents for the first time his approach to the question of power that
will be the focus of his research up to the writing of Disciplineand
Punish (1975) and beyond. His analysis starts with a detailed
account of Richelieu’s repression of the Nu-pieds revolt (1639-1640)
and then goes on to show how the apparatus of power developed by the
monarchy on this occasion breaks with the system of juridical and
judicial institutions of the Middle Ages and opens out onto a
“judicial State apparatus”, a “repressive system”, whose
function is focused on the confinement of those who challenge its
order. Michel Foucault systemizes the approach of a history of truth
on the basis of the study of “juridico-political matrices” that he
had begun in the previous year’s lectures (Lectures on the Will to
Know) and which is at the heart of the notion of
“knowledge-power”. In these lectures Foucault develops his theory
of justice and penal law. The appearance of this volume marks the end
of the publication of the series Foucault’s courses at the Collège
de France (the first volume of which was published in 1997).
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ISBN
9783319992921
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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