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Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's
Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and
daily life What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in
the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns
and their subjects? How did the police come to understand
themselves as responsible for the circulation of people as much as
things-and to separate law and justice from the maintenance of a
newly emergent civil order? These are among the many questions
addressed in the interpretive essays in Archives of Infamy.
Crisscrossing the Atlantic to bring together unpublished radio
broadcasts, book reviews, and essays by historians, geographers,
and political theorists, Archives of Infamy provides historical and
archival contexts to the recent translation of Disorderly Families
by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault. This volume includes new
translations of key texts, including a radio address Foucault gave
in 1983 that explains the writing process for Disorderly Families;
two essays by Foucault not readily available in English; and a
previously untranslated essay by Farge that describes how
historians have appropriated Foucault. Archives of Infamy pushes
past old debates between philosophers and historians to offer a new
perspective on the crystallization of ideas-of the family, gender
relations, and political power-into social relationships and the
regimes of power they engender. Contributors: Roger Chartier,
College de France; Stuart Elden, U of Warwick; Arlette Farge,
Centre national de recherche scientifique; Michel Foucault
(1926-1984); Jean-Philippe Guinle, Catholic Institute of Paris;
Michel Heurteaux; Pierre Nora, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales; Michael Rey (1953-1993); Thomas Scott-Railton; Elizabeth
Wingrove, U of Michigan.
An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical
research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft
of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge's
Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical
classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial
records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was
struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of
the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially
women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by
the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In The Allure of the
Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets
and the thrill of venturing into new dimensions of the past.
Originally published in 1989, Farge's classic work communicates the
tactile, interpretive, and emotional experience of archival
research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old
Regime in France. At once a practical guide to research methodology
and an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing
history, this uniquely rich volume demonstrates how surrendering to
the archive's allure can forever change how we understand the past.
The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth
century France held in the archives of the Bastille Drunken and
debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These
and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written
to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of
arrest (lettres de cachet) from France's Ancien Regime were often
associated with excessive royal power and seen as a way for the
king to imprison political opponents. In Disorderly Families, first
published in French in 1982, Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault
collect ninety-four letters from ordinary families who, with the
help of hired scribes, submitted complaints to the king to
intervene and resolve their family disputes. Gathered together,
these letters show something other than the exercise of arbitrary
royal power, and offer unusual insight into the infamies of daily
life. From these letters come stories of divorce and marital
conflict, sexual waywardness, reckless extravagance, and
abandonment. The letters evoke a fluid social space in which life
in the home and on the street was regulated by the rhythms of
relations between husbands and wives, or parents and children. Most
impressively, these letters outline how ordinary people seized the
mechanisms of power to address the king and make demands in the
name of an emerging civil order. Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault
were fascinated by the letters' explosive qualities and by how they
both illustrated and intervened in the workings of power and
governmentality. Disorderly Families sheds light on Foucault's
conception of political agency and his commitment to theorizing how
ordinary lives come to be touched by power. This first English
translation is complete with an introduction from the book's
editor, Nancy Luxon, as well as notes that contextualize the
original 1982 publication and eighteenth-century policing
practices.
Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's
Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and
daily life What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in
the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns
and their subjects? How did the police come to understand
themselves as responsible for the circulation of people as much as
things-and to separate law and justice from the maintenance of a
newly emergent civil order? These are among the many questions
addressed in the interpretive essays in Archives of Infamy.
Crisscrossing the Atlantic to bring together unpublished radio
broadcasts, book reviews, and essays by historians, geographers,
and political theorists, Archives of Infamy provides historical and
archival contexts to the recent translation of Disorderly Families
by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault. This volume includes new
translations of key texts, including a radio address Foucault gave
in 1983 that explains the writing process for Disorderly Families;
two essays by Foucault not readily available in English; and a
previously untranslated essay by Farge that describes how
historians have appropriated Foucault. Archives of Infamy pushes
past old debates between philosophers and historians to offer a new
perspective on the crystallization of ideas-of the family, gender
relations, and political power-into social relationships and the
regimes of power they engender. Contributors: Roger Chartier,
College de France; Stuart Elden, U of Warwick; Arlette Farge,
Centre national de recherche scientifique; Michel Foucault
(1926-1984); Jean-Philippe Guinle, Catholic Institute of Paris;
Michel Heurteaux; Pierre Nora, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales; Michael Rey (1953-1993); Thomas Scott-Railton; Elizabeth
Wingrove, U of Michigan.
Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of
women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of
work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman"
as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts
and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point
of a debate-sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious-conducted in
every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine.
Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious
claims about female "nature," women took initiative by quiet
maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in
image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth
centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.
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