One of a series of posts on Barry Stocker’s blog on Foucault’s Theories et institutions pénale. Cours au Collège de France, 1971-1972. Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 2015
(Commentary on Theories et institutions pénale. Cours au Collège de France, 1971-1972. Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 2015)
23rd February, 1972
Institutions of Peace
First function
Private wars are forbidden
They are forbidden by a collective or singular authority
This authority imposes what can be placed before a judicial body, that is private war or what provokes private war
Justice is now not what comes after injury, arbitration and peace. The court is under the control of an authority establishing peace.
Public authority has separated injury from justice (presumably Foucault means injury cannot be a reply to an injury, that the injury can only be punished in the public court).
Justice is confiscated by the judiciary (from the private agreements between aristocrats at war with each other)
Second Function
Establish region where taxation/state revenues are better organised, more stable, and generate more income.
The period of private wars within the aristocracy generated revenue for…
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