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Informationen zum Autor Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. His books include The Government of Self and Others , The Courage of Truth , The Birth of Biopolitics , and The Punitive Society . Klappentext From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorizing individuals who "resemble their crime before they commit it." Building on the themes of societal self-defense in "Society Must Be Defended," Foucault shows how and why defining "abnormality" and "normality" were prerogatives of power in the nineteenth century. The College de France lectures add immeasurably to our appreciation of Foucault's work and offer a unique window into his thinking. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana Introduction: Arnold I. Davidson One: 8 January 1975 Expert psychiatric opinion in penal cases. - What kind of discourse is the discourse of expert psychiatric opinion? - Discourses of truth and discourses that make one laugh. - Legal proof in eighteenth-century criminal law. - The reformers. - The principle of profound conviction. - Extenuating circumstances. - The relationship between truth and justice. - The grotesque in the mechanism of power. - The psychological-moral double of the offense. - Expert opinion shows how the individual already resembles his crime before he has committed it. - The emergence of the power of normalization. Two: 15 January 1975 Madness and crime. - Perversity and puerility. - The dangerous individual. - The psychiatric expert can only have the character of Ubu. - The epistemological level of psychiatry and its regression in expert medico-legal opinion. - End of the antagonistic relationship between medical power and judicial power. - Expert opinion and abnormal individuals ( les anormaux ). - Criticism of the notion of repression. - Exclusion of lepers and inclusion of plague victims. - Invention of positive technologies of power. - The normal and the pathological. Three: 22 January 1975 Three figures that constitute the domain of abnormality: the human monster, the individual to be corrected, the masturbating child. - The sexual monster brings together the monstrous individual and the sexual deviant. - Historical review of the three figures. - Reversal of their historical importance. - Sacred embryology and the juridico-biological theory of the monster. - Siamese twins. - Hermaphrodites: minor cases. - The Marie Lemarcis case. - The Anne Grandjean cases. Four: 29 January 1975 The moral monster. - Crime in classical law. - The spectacle of public torture and execution ( la supplice ). - Transformation of the mechanisms of power. - Disappearance of the ritual expenditure of punitive power. - The pathological nature of criminality. - The political monster: Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. - The monster in Jacobin literature (the tyrant) and anti-Jacobin literature (the rebellious people). - Incest and cannibalism. Five: 5 February 1975 In the land of the ogres. - Transition from the monster to the abnormal ( l'anormal ). - The three great founding monsters of criminal psychiatry. - Medical power and judicial power with regard to the notion of the absence of interest. - The institutionalization of psychiatry as a specialized branch of public...
