Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

The Function of Avowal in Justice

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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

The Function of Avowal in Justice

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Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures—which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between Foucault's early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity.

Ranging broadly from Homer to the twentieth century, Foucault traces the early use of truth-telling in ancient Greece and follows it through to practices of self-examination in monastic times. By the nineteenth century, the avowal of wrongdoing was no longer sufficient to satisfy the call for justice; there remained the question of who the "criminal" was and what formative factors contributed to his wrong-doing. The call for psychiatric expertise marked the birth of the discipline of psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as its widespread recognition as the foundation of criminology and modern criminal justice.
 
Published here for the first time, the 1981 lectures have been superbly translated by Stephen W. Sawyer and expertly edited and extensively annotated by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. They are accompanied by two contemporaneous interviews with Foucault in which he elaborates on a number of the key themes. An essential companion to Discipline and Punish, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling will take its place as one of the most significant works of Foucault to appear in decades, and will be necessary reading for all those interested in his thought.

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Index of Notions and Concepts
absence, 75, 96, 138, 190, 206, 212
absolve, 61, 185, 186, 190
abuse, 76
accusation, 41, 62, 65, 72, 73, 111
accuse, 22, 44, 65, 72, 74n*, 98, 111, 202, 203, 227, 228, 275
accused, 41, 111, 202, 203, 204, 205, 208
accuser, 41, 202, 203
act, 12, 41, 44, 76, 92, 97, 100, 105, 109, 112, 117, 124n41, 138, 139, 140, 144, 145, 148, 157n28, 165, 173, 182, 182n*, 186, 192n1, 196n26, 207, 221, 223, 224, 227, 228, 231n12, 260, 273, 282, 310; of absolution, 188, 190; of avowal, 15, 191; criminal, 213; of faith, 106, 166, 188; of memory, 99; speech act, 14; of truth, 191, 297; verbal, 4, 17, 141, 167, 183, 189, 190, 191, 210
action, 13, 23, 60, 84n23, 84n25, 92, 95, 97, 100, 116, 132, 139, 143, 145, 150, 159n45, 174, 187, 198n29, 243, 261, 280; divine, 60
activity, 74n*, 101, 110, 133, 138, 149, 174, 244, 260, 279, 285
actus, 109
adversary, 27, 37, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51n4, 52n19, 52n31, 89n80, 202
aeikinētos, 146
agonistic, 30, 31, 32, 47, 49
akouein, 140
alcoholism, 218
alethur...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Editor’s Preface
  7. Inaugural Lecture
  8. First Lecture
  9. Second Lecture
  10. Third Lecture
  11. Fourth Lecture
  12. Fifth Lecture
  13. Sixth Lecture
  14. Interview with André Berten
  15. Interview with Christian Panier and Pierre Watté
  16. Interview with Jean François and John de Wit
  17. The Louvain Lectures in Context
  18. Acknowledgments to the French Edition
  19. Acknowledgments to the English Edition
  20. Notes
  21. Index of Notions and Concepts
  22. Index of Proper Names