Michel Foucault and the Competing Alethurgies of Law
Jan Christoph Suntrup
Law has an epistemic dimension, contributing to the social construction of reality. Legal trials stage constitution knowledge, facts and other kinds truth in accordance with specified rules procedure evidence. As legal cultures differ their conceptions fairness, justice, especially nature depth envisaged at trial, there is a demand for analytical means that can contribute sophisticated comparison procedures production. Some new categories be found lectures published part very recently by Michel Foucault, whose genealogical sketches juridical forms making have not received attention they deserve. Foucault distinguishes between three basic constitution: test, inquiry examination. all these practices are performed ritual, liturgical manner, refers them as ‘alethurgies’. The critical reconstruction his foray into historical stages transformations manifestation only enables reassessment Foucault’s thinking, but, more importantly, provides us categorical devices might useful contemporary legal, procedural cultures.
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies