Between Governance and Discipline: The Law and Michel Foucault*

2017 ◽  
pp. 149-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Tadros
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2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Celeste Sales (FADIC/PE) ◽  
Altamir (D. Rafael) Francisco da Silva (FADIC/PE)

O texto traça uma breve investigação acerca da teoria realista da interpretação em cotejo com o pensamento genealógico foucaultiano enquanto hipótese de enfrentamento diante do problema da indeterminação do direito. Considerando o ceticismo que se observa diante da teoria realista, sobretudo a partir do trabalho de Michel Troper, bem como a noção de poder apresentada pelo autor, o ensaio pretende travar um diálogo com a perspectiva estratégica do direito apresentada nas diversas fases do filósofo Michel Foucault, mas com ênfase em seu período da genealogia. Nessa esteira, o presente trabalho tem por escopo provocar a reflexão sobre a possibilidade de abordagem dos fenômenos jurídicos a partir de um ângulo não-normativista e portanto de superação do racionalismo moderno.


Author(s):  
Bernadette Meyler

The aim of this essay is to suggest what Jacques Derrida’s late forays into law and politics might contribute to thinking in legal theory beyond what can be derived from Michel Foucault and his inheritors. The key differences pertain to time and timing. In particular, Derrida’s writings lead us to reconsider the timing of the relation between the subject and the law, whether that subject is declaring independence or awaiting death. Through the vector of time, the trace of the subject—not self-present or autonomous but a subject nonetheless—is recovered within the juridico-political sphere.


2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
BEN GOLDER

In a late interview given to the French newspaper Le Monde, Michel Foucault discussed his dreams for a different style of criticism. ‘I can't help but dream about a kind of criticism’, remarked Foucault, in which one would ‘not try to judge, but to bring an oeuvre, a book, a sentence, an idea to life; it would light fires, watch the grass grow, listen to the wind, and catch the sea-foam in the breeze and scatter it.’ This somewhat wistful, poetic thought resonates with more familiar Foucauldian notions regarding the use of theory as a ‘toolkit’ or ‘toolbox’. Common to both these tropes – critique as affirmation and theory as functional – is the desire for thought to be put to work rather than put on trial, for sentences to be brought to life rather than delivered. And yet this presents the would-be Foucauldian book reviewer – and more so where the venue is the impeccably juridical one of the law journal – with a series of alluring problems. How might one elaborate such a Foucauldian critique in a context where one is expressly called upon to judge? What would such a non-judgmental Foucauldian critique look like? Are juridical practices of critique readily susceptible to Foucauldian appropriation or subversion? This set of related questions is emblematic of a wider concern of mine which forms the subject matter of this review essay, namely the place of Foucault (if indeed he has one) in legal theory. How does Foucault, that fabled figure of postmodern antinomianism who supposedly announced the demise and ‘expulsion’ of modern law, relate to legal theory? What might it mean to bring Foucault's unruly poststructuralism ‘into law’? And with what possible effects?


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-248
Author(s):  
Paweł Sut

The aim of this article is to consider the hypothesis: relations between law and intimacy should be described and reflected also on the basis of concepts emerging in social sciences and philosophy. Traditional methods and categories of jurisprudence are not enough here. Relations between the law and intimacy are „hidden”, for example, in art. 47 and art. 18 Polish Constitution. Particularly interesting is art. 18 with the following text: „Marriage as a union of a woman and a man, family, motherhood and parenthood are under the protection and care of the Republic of Poland”. This provision is the cause of a legal dispute over the admissibility of the institutionalization of partnerships in Poland. The problem of the institutionalization of partnerships concerns, in my opinion, the relations between law and intimacy. These relations should be considered on the basis of the results of sociological and philosophical research. To solve the dispute about the admissibility of the institutionalization of partnerships in the Polish Constitution, works of, among others, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens may be valuable. M. Foucault’s ideas have a huge impact on the contemporary scientific understanding of sexuality. A. Giddens created the transformation of intimacy concept. The concept is consistent with the axiology of modern legal culture.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-312
Author(s):  
Andrea Cristina Coelho Scisleski ◽  
Giovana Barbieri Galeano

Este artigo se origina de uma pesquisa que problematiza as políticas públicas direcionadas à juventude que comete atos infracionais, especialmente as adolescentes mulheres. Norteadas pelo pensamento de Michel Foucault, discutimos e analisamos o modo como o discurso sobre a população jovem em conflito com a lei é operacionalizado para legitimar intervenções no meio socioeducativo. Partimos da arqueogenealogia foucaultiana para pensar o presente nas relações de poder-saber, refletindo acerca dos discursos sobre os direitos das jovens que cumprem medidas socioeducativas, pois as políticas da socioeducação têm sido pensada, prioritariamente, para os jovens do sexo masculino, invisibilizando as condições específicas que implicam a entrada das adolescentes no sistema de justiça. A operacionalização das políticas públicas para a juventude em conflito com a lei, no presente, indica a execução de medidas que, subsidiadas por discursos produzidos na relação entre instituições de saúde e justiça, violam os direitos garantidos em lei. This article is the result of a research that problematizes the public policies directed to the youth that commits offensive conducts, especially the adolescent women. Guided by Michel Foucault's thought, we discuss and analyze how the discourse on the young population in conflict with the law is operationalized to legitimize interventions in the socio-educational environment. We started from the Foucauldian archaeogenealogy to think about the present in power-knowledge relations, reflecting on the discourses on the rights of young women who serve socio-educational measures, because the policies of socio-education have been designed for young men, invisibilizing the specific conditions that imply the entry of girls into the Brazilian justice system. The operationalization of public policies for youth in conflict with the law, in the present, indicates the implementation of measures that, subsidized by speeches produced in the relationship between health institutions and justice, violate the rights guaranteed by law. Este artículo se origina en una investigación que problematiza las políticas públicas dirigidas a jóvenes que cometen infracciones, especialmente a las adolescentes. Guiadas por el pensamiento de Michel Foucault, discutimos y analizamos cómo se operacionaliza el discurso sobre la población joven en conflicto con la ley para legitimar las intervenciones en el entorno socioeducativo. Partimos de la arqueogenealogía de Foucault para recapacitar sobre el presente en las relaciones de poder-conocimiento, reflexionando acerca de los discursos sobre los derechos de los y las jóvenes que cumplen con las medidas socioeducativas, ya que las políticas de educación social se han diseñado principalmente para hombres jóvenes, haciendo invisibles las condiciones que implican la entrada de los adolescentes a la justicia. La operacionalización de las políticas públicas para jóvenes en conflicto con la ley, en la actualidad, indica la implementación de medidas que, subsidiadas por discursos producidos en la relación entre instituciones de salud y justicia, violan los derechos garantizados por la ley.


Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Lascoume

This article expresses some ideas on the application of the methodological and epistemological principles, drawn from the concept of Michel Foucault, to legal sociology. In fact, Michel Foucault urged that his work be considered a tool-box where useful working instruments could be found. Among these, we find three types of instruments, conceptual, methodological and epistemological. This article discusses four epistemological principles taken from the work of Michel Foucault, namely (I) the break with anthro-pologism and with the cult of Man ; (2) rejection of the universals of thought; (3) the description of the paradigms for truth, understood as the conditions for true discourse, as defined in specific social formations ; (4) critical materialism. We also take into account a double principle of objectivication in the work of Foucault. The first of these principles acts at a more global level whereas the second operates analytically. We discuss how these epistemological principles and these objectivication forms guided us in our related sociological studies on the law. We also show how these studies were inspired by the work of Foucault, who, like De la gouvernementalité, were published after his death.


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