Penal Theories and Institutions Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972 /

• Main Author: Foucault, Michel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France
• Subjects: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political science.; History-Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Social Philosophy.; Philosophy of Law.; Philosophy of History.; Political Philosophy.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

"What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators). What characterizes the juridical act, the process or the procedure in the broad sense, is the regulated development...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword, François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana
• Chapter 1: 24 November 1971
• Chapter 2: 1 December 1971
• Chapter 3: 15 December 1971
• Chapter 4: 22 December 1971
• Chapter 5: 12 January 1972
• Chapter 6: 19 January 1972
• Chapter 7: 26 January 1972
• Chapter 8: 2 February 1972
• Chapter 9: 9 February 1972
• Chapter 10: 16 February 1972
• Chapter 11: 23 February 1972
• Chapter 12: 1 March 1972
• Chapter 13: 8 March 1972
• Ceremony, theatre and politics in the seventeenth century
• Course summary
• Course context
• Letter from Étienne Balibar to the editor of the lectures
• Foucault and the historians, Claude-Olivier Doron
• Index of notions
• Index of names.