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How to do things with Foucault (legally)
International Journal of Law in Context ( IF 1.170 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-20 , DOI: 10.1017/s1744552321000203
Ben Golder

In this essay, I discuss the legal theorist, Peter Fitzpatrick's, reading of philosopher Michel Foucault. My intent is to show how and why Foucault was important to Fitzpatrick and what this reveals about the latter's practices of reading. I characterise this particular reading in three ways. First, against the disciplinary tendency to assume that Foucault is more useful to lawyers for how he approaches law (as method), Fitzpatrick takes seriously what Foucault has to say about law as a conceptual matter. Fitzpatrick hence reads Foucault as a legal thinker. Second, Fitzpatrick does not restrict himself to the conventional archive of Foucauldian texts that legal scholars routinely consult, but reads more widely and creatively in his search for law. Third, Fitzpatrick reads Foucault open-endedly and generously rather than instrumentally or dismissively – textual ambivalence and contradiction are always, in his hands, sources of creative possibility and insight. This leads into some concluding reflections about Fitzpatrick's practice of critically rereading thinkers – all thinkers, not simply Foucault.

中文翻译:

如何与福柯做事(合法)

在这篇文章中,我讨论了法律理论家彼得·菲茨帕特里克对哲学家米歇尔·福柯的解读。我的目的是展示福柯如何以及为什么对菲茨帕特里克很重要,以及这揭示了后者的阅读实践。我用三种方式来描述这种特殊的阅读方式。首先,与假设福柯在处理法律(作为方法)方面对律师更有用的学科倾向相反,菲茨帕特里克认真对待福柯关于作为概念问题的法律所说的话。因此,菲茨帕特里克将福柯解读为一位法律思想家。其次,菲茨帕特里克并不局限于法律学者经常查阅的福柯文本的传统档案,而是在寻找法律时进行了更广泛和创造性的阅读。第三,菲茨帕特里克对福柯的解读是开放而慷慨的,而不是工具性的或轻蔑的——在他的手中,文本的矛盾和矛盾始终是创造性可能性和洞察力的来源。这导致了一些关于菲茨帕特里克批判性重读思想家实践的结论性思考——所有思想家,而不仅仅是福柯。
更新日期:2021-05-20
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