From: "Stuart Elden" <stuart.elden-AT-clara.co.uk> Subject: RE: Judges and psychiatrists Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:19:09 -0000 The newly published _Les Anormaux_ (Gallimard/Seuil, 1999) would also speak to these concerns. Best wishes Stuart -----Original Message----- From: owner-foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu [mailto:owner-foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of Matthew King Sent: 19 March 2000 06:57 To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: Judges and psychiatrists On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Prarthna Chaddha wrote: > Question: > Is Foucault's thesis on the general shift from juridical to disciplinary > forms of social power applicable to law? There's a piece in _Politics, Philosophy, Culture_ about the colonization of the legal system by disciplinary power--how the power of the judge is displaced in the courtroom by that of the psychiatrist. Matthew ---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto--- "Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience." -----------------------------(Walter Benjamin)-----------------------------
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