On Sir Leon Radzinowicz reading Michel Foucault  

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Maier-Katkin, Daniel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Punishment and Society vol. 5 no. 2 (Apr. 2003), page 155-177.
Topik: criminology • Foucault • modernity • postmodernism • Radzinowicz
Fulltext: 155PS52.pdf (104.47KB)

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This essay draws on the intriguing fact that Sir Leon Radzinowicz, the leading historian of the progressive era in relation to criminal law and its administration was at the time of his death engaged in the systematic collection and preliminary examination of the work of Michel Foucault, which he characterized in conversation as ‘disquieting’. Why should he have taken on such a project in his nineties? And what is it about Foucault that Radzinowicz might have found disquieting? By focusing on the intellectual confrontation implicit in Radzinowicz reading Foucault this article points the way to a better understanding of the ‘disquieting’ tensions that arise generally along the frontier between modern and postmodern thought in the fields of criminology, penology, criminal law and social control, which were at the center of Radzinowicz’s interest and not far from the center of Foucault’s.

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