Penal Theories and Institutions by Michel Foucault - ISBN: 9781250195128
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Uncover the hidden power struggles behind justice and penal systems.

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    352 pages

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    23 November 2021

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Summary

The thirteenth and final English volume of Michel Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France

“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 an episod…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781250195128
ISBN-10:1250195128
Author:Michel Foucault, Graham Burchell, Alessandro Fontana, Arnold I. Davidson, François Ewald
Publisher:Picador USA
Imprint:Picador USA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:23 November 2021
Weight:318g
Dimensions:208mm x 134mm x 28mm
Series:Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France
About The Author

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

Arnold I. Davidson, Series Editor, is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is coeditor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie.

Graham Burchell is a translator. As well as translating Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France he has written essays on Foucault’s work and was an editor of and contributor to the influential volume The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality.

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