2/13 READINGS | Marx’s Debates on the Thefts of Wood and Michel Foucault

August 18, 2024Bernard E. Harcourt

Primary text:

Karl Marx, Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood (1842)

in Karl Marx-Frederick Engels, Collected Works, Volume 1 (Karl Marx: 1835-1843) (New York: International Publishers, 1975), pp. 224-263.
on-line at https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1842/10/25.htm

Secondary text:

Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France 1972-1973, ed. Bernard E. Harcourt, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 61-62 and 139-196.

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1977), pp. 257-292.

Additional Resources:

Bernard E. Harcourt, “Course Context,” in Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France 1972-1973, ed. Bernard E. Harcourt, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 265-300.