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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling - The Function of Avowal in Justice (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling - The Function of Avowal in Justice (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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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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