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This article analyses Foucault’s 1972–3 lecture course, La société punitive. While the course can certainly be seen as an initial draft of themes for the 1975 book Surveiller et punir (Discipline and Punish), there are some important differences. The reading here focuses on different modes of punishment; the civil war and the social enemy; the comparison of England and France; and political economy. It closes with some analysis of the emerging clarity in Foucault’s work around power and genealogy. This is a course where Foucault makes use of Marxist language and categories, engages with historical materialism, and offers a complementary and at times corrective focus.
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Agamben Giorgio Heller-Roazen Daniel Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 1995 Stanford Stanford University Press
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Barrett Michèle The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault 1992 Cambridge Polity
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Bois Paul Paysans de l’Ouest: des structures économiques et sociales aux options politiques depuis l’époque révolutionnaire, dans la Sarthe 1960 Le Mans Mouton
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Foucault Michel Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison 1975 Paris Éditions Gallimard
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Foucault Michel Sheridan Alan Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 1977 Harmondsworth Penguin
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Foucault Michel Hurley Robert The History of Sexuality Volume I: An Introduction 1979 Harmondsworth Penguin
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Foucault Michel Dits et écrits, 1954–1988 1994 Paris Éditions Gallimard four volumes
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Foucault Michel Bertani Mauro & Fontana Alessandro «Il faut défendre la société»: Cours au Collège de France, 1976 1997 Paris Éditions du Seuil
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Foucault Michel Marchetti Valerio & Salomani Antonella Les Anormaux: Cours au Collège de France, 1974–1975 1999 Paris Gallimard/Seuil
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Foucault 2015b. This translation appeared too late to use for this essay.
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Foucault, Gordon and Patton 2012, p. 100. Foucault says ‘Book 2’, but this is dependent on the French arrangement of materials.
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10
Foucault 1976, for example p. 16 (English translation: Foucault 1979, p. 18).
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Foucault 1994, Volume ii, pp. 538–646; Foucault 2000; Foucault 2003a (English translation: Foucault 2006).
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Foucault 1975, pp. 39–40 (English translation: Foucault 1977, pp. 30–1).
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Foucault 1994, Volume ii, pp. 536–646; Foucault 2000.
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Agamben 1995. See Harcourt’s note on p. 21, n. 18.
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Marx 1975; see Linebaugh 1976.
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Foucault 1975, p. 40, n. 1 (English translation: Foucault 1977, p. 309, n. 3).
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For example, Foucault 1975, p. 33 (English translation: Foucault 1977, p. 25). See also Guéry and Deleule 1972 (English translation: Guéry and Deleule 2014).
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Bois 1960.
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This article analyses Foucault’s 1972–3 lecture course, La société punitive. While the course can certainly be seen as an initial draft of themes for the 1975 book Surveiller et punir (Discipline and Punish), there are some important differences. The reading here focuses on different modes of punishment; the civil war and the social enemy; the comparison of England and France; and political economy. It closes with some analysis of the emerging clarity in Foucault’s work around power and genealogy. This is a course where Foucault makes use of Marxist language and categories, engages with historical materialism, and offers a complementary and at times corrective focus.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 1240 | 179 | 27 |
| Full Text Views | 360 | 22 | 4 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 232 | 35 | 9 |