Alondra Nelson is professor of sociology and gender studies and Dean of Social Science at Columbia University, where she has served as director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is Chair-elect of the American Sociological… Continue Reading
By Partha Chatterjee On the question of “the war of all against all”, Didier, Nadia and Bernard made important interventions to situate Foucault’s 1972-73 lectures in the political context of the time. But it seems to me that there is… Continue Reading
By Antonio Pele, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Let me add a few thoughts to the rich discussion on the blog and at the Foucault 3/13 seminar on The Punitive Society (TPS), which I have been watching from Rio. To… Continue Reading
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
Nadia Urbinati (Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, 1989) is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University, Department of Political Science. She is permanent visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna of Pisa and teaches courses at… Continue Reading
Professor Axel Honneth is Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University; Director of the Institute for Social Research, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (since 2001); and C4-Professor of Social Philosophy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am… Continue Reading
Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton since 2009. Prior to this appointment, he was professor at the University of Paris North and director of studies at the EHESS, École des Hautes… Continue Reading
By Didier Fassin The Punitive Society prepares and announces Discipline and Punish, on which Foucault began to work in parallel. Nevertheless, far from being a draft of the latter, the former deserves to be treated as a completely distinct and… Continue Reading
By Axel Honneth By contrast to Nadia Urbinati, whose comments I read with great interest and from which I learned a lot, I will concentrate in my remarks on some theoretical premises within Foucault’s fascinating lectures on The Punitive Society. There… Continue Reading
In preparation of the third seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing The Punitive Society (1972-1973), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by commenting on the… Continue Reading