The Dialectic of Repression. Michel Foucault and the Birth of Penal Institutions

The essay aims to highlight the role of the repression in the course taught by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France Théories et institutions pénales of 1971-1972 and in the texts in which, during the same years, Foucault elaborates the genealogy of the modern penal system. During the 1971-72 cou...

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Main Author: Alessandro Pandolfi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2016-12-01
Series:Scienza & Politica
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Online Access:https://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/6615
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Summary:The essay aims to highlight the role of the repression in the course taught by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France Théories et institutions pénales of 1971-1972 and in the texts in which, during the same years, Foucault elaborates the genealogy of the modern penal system. During the 1971-72 course Foucault represents repression as a political device that beside the use of violence, simultaneously brings into play new tactics, new relationships, new balance of power, and above all, anticipates the institutions and the fundamental practices criminal law of modernity.
ISSN:1590-4946
1825-9618