The Punitive Society Lectures at the Coll}}ge de France, 1972-1973 [Hardcover]

These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Coll?ge de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were forged, and question what links them to the emergence of a new punitive regime that still dominates contemporary society.Foreword: Fran?ois Ewald And Alessandro Fontana
Introduction: Arnold I. Davidson
Translator's Note
1. 3 January 1973
2. 10 January 1973
3. 17 January 1973
4. 24 January 1973
5. 31 January 1973
6. 7 February 1973
7. 14 February 1973
8. 21 February 1973
9. 28 February 1973
10. 7 March 1973
11. 14 March 1973
12. 21 March 1973
13. 28 March 1973
Course Summary
Course Context
Index Of Notions
Index Of Names

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2016

Delivered shortly after the dissolution of Group dInformation sur les Prisons, Foucaults third lecture course at the Coll?ge de France coincided with a significant change in his thinking about prisons, as he began to reflect on the disciplinary power at work in prisons and in society more generally. & Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. (A. D. Schrift, Choice, Vol. 53 (9), May, 2016)

Bernard Harcourt & has done a fantastic job establishing the text of the lectures & . He provides us with countless erudite references to Foucaults unacknowledged as well as acknowledged sources and supplies a clear, fair-minded and modest commentary. The editors of the series and Harcourts research assistants also need our thanks as well. But in the end, it is Graham Burchells superb translation and Harcourts absolutely rigorous editing work & that ought to receive our everlasting tlC,