Michel Foucault 
The Punitive Society 
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1972-1973

These thirteen lectures on the ‘punitive society, ‘ delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were forged, and question what links them to the emergence of a new punitive regime that still dominates contemporary society.

Table of Content

Foreword: François Ewald And Alessandro Fontana

Introduction: Arnold I. Davidson

Translator’s Note

1. 3 January 1973

2. 10 January 1973

3. 17 January 1973

4. 24 January 1973

5. 31 January 1973

6. 7 February 1973

7. 14 February 1973

8. 21 February 1973

9. 28 February 1973

10. 7 March 1973

11. 14 March 1973

12. 21 March 1973

13. 28 March 1973

Course Summary

Course Context

Index Of Notions

Index Of Names

About the author

Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.