Wrong-doing, truth-telling : the function of avowal in justice / Michel Foucault ; edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt ; translated by Stephen W. Sawyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984, author.

Contributor:

Brion, Fabienne, editor.

Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963- editor.

Sawyer, Stephen W., 1974- translator.

Standardized Title:

Mal faire, dire vrai. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Justice.

Truth.

Confession (Law).

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

xi, 344 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press ; [Louvain-la-Neuve] : Presses Universitaires de Louvain, [2014]

Contents:

Inaugural Lecture: April 2, 1981 11

Dr. Leuret, avowal, and the therapeutic operation

The supposed effects of truth-telling about oneself and of knowledge of the self

Characteristics of avowal

The spread of avowal within Western Christian societies: individuals bound to their truth and obligated in their relationships to others through the truth told

A historical-political problem: how the individual binds himself to his truth and to the power that exerts itself upon him

A historical-philosophical problem: how individuals are bound by forms of veridiction

A counterpoint to positivism: a critical philosophy of veridictions

The problem of "who is being judged" in penal institutions

Penal practices and technologies of government

Governing through truth

First Lecture: April 22, 1981 27

A political and institutional ethnology of truthful speech

Truth-telling and speaking justice

Scope of the study

Veridiction and jurisdiction in Homer's Iliad

The competition between Menelaus and Antilochus

The object of Antilochus's avowal

Justice and agon; agon and truth

The chariot race and the challenge of the oath, two liturgies of truth, two games designed to represent justly the truth of their respective strengths

A ritual of commemoration

Veridiction and jurisdiction in Hesiod's Works and Days

Dikazein and krinein

The oath of the accusers and the co-jurors in dikazein: a game of two parties, the criteria being the social status of the adversaries

The oath of the judge in krinein: a game of three parties, the criteria being dikaion

The social weight of adversaries and "the reality of things": dikaion and alethes

Second Lecture: April 28, 1981 57

The representation of law in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex

A judicial paradigm

Essential elements of the tragedy

Two recognitions, three alethurgies

Veridiction and prophecy

Veridiction and tyranny

Veridiction and witnessing avowal

Grandeur of the parties, freedom to speak, and the effect of truth in the inquiry

Recognition by the chorus, conditions for recognition by Oedipus

From truth-telling to saying "I."

A procedure that conforms to nomas, a veridiction that repeats the word of the prophet and completes that of the man of techne technes

Third Lecture: April 29, 1981 91

Hermeneutics of the text and hermeneutics of the self in early Christianity

Veridiction of the self in pagan antiquity

The Pythagorean examination of conscience: purification of self and mnemotechnics

The Stoic examination of conscience: the government of the self and the remembering of codes

The Stoic expositio animae: medicine of passions and degrees of liberty

Penance in early Christianity

The problem of reintegration

Penance as a status that manifests a particular state

The meanings of exomologesis

A life in the form of avowal, an avowal in the form of life

A ritual of supplication

Beyond the medical or judicial, the model of the martyr

Veridiction of the self and mortification of the self

From the public manifestation of the self as sinner to the verbalization of the self: temptation and illusion

Fourth Lecture: May 6, 1981 125

Practice of veridiction in monastic institutions of the fourth and fifth centuries: the Apophthegmata patrum and the writings of Cassian

Monasticism: between the life of penance and philosophical existence

Characteristics of the direction of conscience in ancient culture

Characteristics of the direction of conscience in monasticism: an obedience that is continuous, formal, and self-referential; humility, patience, and submission; the inversion of the relationship to verbalization

Characteristics of the examination of conscience in monasticism: from action to thought

Mobility of thought and illusion

Discrimen and discretio: avowal and the origin of thought

Veridiction of the self, hermeneutics of thought, and the rights-bearing subject

Fifth Lecture: May 13, 1981 163

Characteristics of exagoreusis in the fourth and fifth centuries

Renunciation of the self

Truth of the text and truth of the self

The separation and adjustment of the hermeneutics of the text and the hermeneutics of the self in Protestantism

Illusion, evidence, and meaning (Descartes and Locke)

Illusion of the self about the self and the unconscious (Schopenhauer and Freud)

Juridification of avowal in the ecclesiastical tradition from the fourth to the seventh centuries

Co-perietration of exagoreusis and exomologesis in the first monastic and lay communities

Characteristics and origins of fixed penance: the monastic model and the model of Germanic law

Sacramentalization and institutionalization of obligatory confession in the thirteenth century

Juridification of the relationship between man and God

Forms and meanings of avowal in the confessio oris

Sixth Lecture: May 20, 1981 199

Juridification in ecclesiastical and political institutions

From God as judge to a state of justice: sovereignty and truth

Avowal, torture, and inquisitorial tests of truth

Avowal, torture, and legal proofs

Avowal, sovereign law, sovereign conscience, and punitive engagement

Auto-veridiction, evidence, and penal dramaturgy

Hetero-veridiction, examination, and legal psychiatry

Relating the act to its author: the question of criminal subjectivity in the nineteenth century

Monomania and the constitution of crime as psychiatric object

Degeneration and the creation of the criminal as object for social defense

From responsibility to dangerousness, from the rights-bearing subject to the criminal individual

The question of criminal subjectivity in the twentieth century

Hermeneutics of the subject and the meaning of crime for the criminal

Accident, probability, and indices of criminal risk

Veridiction of the subject and the breach in the contemporary penal system.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) index.

ISBN:

9780226257709

0226257703

OCLC:

783150357