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 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 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 Bernard E. Harcourt The third seminar (video here) on The Punitive Society, with Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati, centered on three topics: (1) the model of civil war as a vehicle to analyze relations of power throughout society; (2)… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt [This article draws on a longer essay titled “The ’73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, and the Genealogy of Morals”] In their fascinating and provocative articles on The Punitive Society, Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati raise… Continue Reading
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati discuss Foucault’s third lecture series at the Collège de France, The Punitive Society (1972-1973). Please watch the video here or here. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati and the framing… 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
By Nadia Urbinati If I concern myself with the G.I.P. [Groupe d’information sur les prisons], it is because I prefer effective work to university chattering and scribbling books. …On the other hand, a concrete political action in favor of prisoners… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco Text: Michel Foucault, La Société punitive. Cours au Collège de France. 1972-1973, ed. Bernard E. Harcourt (Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2013) Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France 1972-1973, trans. Graham Burchell… Continue Reading