By Bernard E. Harcourt I am simply trying to see, to reveal, and to transform into legible discourse, legible to all, that which may be unbearable for the most disadvantaged classes in our current system of justice. — Michel Foucault,… Continue Reading
By Daniele Lorenzini I have followed with great interest, from Paris, the discussions which arose before, during, and after the first three meetings of the seminar “Foucault 13/13”, and I really look forward to “Foucault 4/14”, which is going to… Continue Reading
Anna Lvovsky (Ph.D., History of American Civilization, Harvard University; J.D., Harvard Law School) is a legal scholar and historian of gender and sexuality whose work focuses on the intersection of state regulation, morality, and the social sciences. She is currently an… Continue Reading
By Anna Lvovsky Psychiatric Power is an ambitious and provocative set of lectures, not least as a fulcrum between Foucault’s more famous published works: History of Madness, on the one hand, whose approach Foucault now partly derogates, and History of… Continue Reading
Linda M. G. Zerilli is a leading critical thinker and author in the areas of feminist theory, political theory, and Continental philosophy. She is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago,… Continue Reading
By Linda Zerilli At the seminar on Psychiatric Power, I plan to focus my remarks on this question: what does the figure of the hysteric do for Foucault’s (emergent) theory of disciplinary power? I will be looking at the way in… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Le Pouvoir psychiatrique. Cours au Collège de France. 1973-1974, Jacques Lagrange, ed. (Gallimard/Le Seuil, 2003) ________________, Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974, Graham Burchell, trans. (Picador, 2006) Book Reviews… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In light of the rich discussion at Foucault 3/13, I began researching the role of civil war—and of the war model in social thought more generally—and turned to Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl’s book War in Social Thought:… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt While the previous year’s lectures on The Punitive Society focused in large part on the birth of the penitentiary and were motivated by the question “why the prison one hundred and fifty years ago, and for… Continue Reading
By Isadora Ruyter-Harcourt (at the Centro in Rome) As we examine, in the seminar this week, the “punitive society” from the eighteenth century to the present, I thought it might be interesting to step back to the Roman era to… Continue Reading