Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349552860 ISBN 13: 9781349552863

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Perry Zurn is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College, USA.

 

Andrew Dilts is Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University, USA.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1349552860
• ISBN 13: 9781349552863
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
• Herausgeber: Zurn Perry, Dilts Andrew
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH; ProductSafety@springernature.com; ; Europaplatz 3,69115 Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg; 69115; Deutschland