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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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