Draft Syllabus for an 8-week unit on Foucault with "Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling" at its center

Draft Syllabus for a class unit based on Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling (to be used in a course on Foucault, or on genealogy, or on truth & truthfulness, or on ...; envisioned audience is advanced undergraduates with significant experience in philosophy).

The draft syllabus below describes the basic focus of each lecture in Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling followed by a brief list of texts (mostly by Foucault) that we would propose to pair with these.

Inaugural Lecture
This lecture offers a statement of aims: to give an account of the practice of avowal, with a specific attention to juridical contexts; four-part definition of avowal as a kind of speech act.
 - Foucault interview with Dreyfus and Rabinow, "On the Genealogy of Ethics: Overview of a Work in Progress" (1983, in EW1)
 - passage(s) on speech act and énoncé in The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)
 - John Austin, "Performative Utterances" (1961)
 - Dreyfus and Rabinow, Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Ch. 3 (1982)

First Lecture
This lecture presents an episode of 'quasi-avowal' in antiquity drawn from an chariot race in Homer's Iliad; themes include differences between rituals of oath-taking and rituals in which truth is just demonstrated.
 - Lectures on the Will to Know, Jan. 27 lecture, Ch. 5 (1971)
 - The Punitive Society, Jan. 10 lecture, Ch. 2 (1973)

Second Lecture
This lecture focuses on Oedipus Rex to detail the following themes: sovereign right and power, procedure and the juridicial form, recognition of oneself as the author of a crime, characterization of a crime, trial.
 - History of Sexuality, Volume One: "Right of Death & Power Over Life" from HS1 (1976)
 - "Truth and Juridical Forms" Rio Lectures; second lecture, "Oedipus and Truth" (1973)
 - Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (429 BC)

Third Lecture
This lecture focuses on veridiction of self in pagan antiquity, with specific attention to Seneca's examination of conscience; as well as penance in early Christianity.
 - On the Government of the Living 12 Mar & 19 Mar lectures (1980)
 - "Technologies of Self" Vermont lectures in EW1 (1982); especially section 3 on Seneca and section 5 on exomologesis
 - "Self Writing" in EW1 on Seneca and hupomnemata (undated?; early 1980s)

Fourth Lecture
This lecture focused on monastic practices in 4th and 5th centuries and expansion of projects of the management of life and souls; themes of obedience, humility, and submission.
 - "What is Critique?" (1978); paired with Butler's "What Is Critique: An Essay on Foucault's Virtue" (2001), plus last two chapters of Giving an Account of Oneself (2003)
 - History of Sexuality, Volume One (1976); introductory pages
 - Discipline and Punish (1975); introductory pages

Fifth Lecture
This lecture considers connections for future research (including link between hermeneutics of the text and hermeneutics of the self in Christianity and the uptake of the hermeneutics of the self from the Christian tradition  by Schopenhauer and Freud); the main focus is then on the juridification of avowal within the ecclesastical tradition and institution.
 - Security, Territory, Population; 8 February lecture focused on pastoral power and governmentality (1978)
 - “Christianity and Confession” Dartmouth lecture (1980)
 - "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" on historigraphical categories of emergence, descent, and origins (1971)

Sixth Lecture
This lecture focuses on juridification in ecclesiastical, and especially political, institutions.  Intervention of human science of punishment; topics and concepts include punishment, torture, dramaturgy, examination, social defense, criminal subjectivity.
 - This lecture would pair well with a whole range of Foucault's writings from the early 1970s
 - "Truth and Juridical Forms" Rio lectures; especially the last lecture (1973)
 - Punitive Societey, 10 Jan. (lecture 2), 24 Jan. (lecture 2), 7 Feb (lecture 6);  14 Mar. (lecture 11) (1973)
 - Discipline and Punish, selections (1975)
 - Abnormal, 15 Jan.  (lecture 2), 5. Feb (lecture 5), 12 Feb (lecture 6) (1975)
 - History of Sexuality, Volume One, chapter on "scientia sexualis" (Part III) (1976)


General comparative texts: HSv2 and HSv3.
 
General informative texts: Foucault's interviews, especially "The Ethics of the Concern for Self as a Practice of Freedom," "On the Genealogy of Ethics," and "Structuralism and Post-Structuralism".

Four-part analysis of avowal in 'Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling'

Draft/In-Progress

Based on Foucault's description/definition of the "speech act" of avowal (on pp. 15-17).

Avowal (as a passage from unsaid to truly said)	Subject of Avowal	Subject to whom avowed (the other who recognizes)	Costly (cost not in the act, but in the content)	Freely-stated (such that the subj enters obligation)	Submission within a power relation (power-over)	Modifies or transforms the subject
	Subjects of Avowal		Four Qualities of Avowal
Lecture 1: Iliad	Antilochus	Menelaus, Achilles, etc.	Yes; costs him the race prize	Yes; by not taking the oath, A confirms the truth	Yes; b/w A and M; also between A and the Gods	Yes; as "restoring" (p. 40) truth; transforms A's relation to others
Lecture 2: Oedipus Rex	Shepherd of Cithareon (not Teresias/Apllo, nor Jocasta/Oedi)	Oedipus & Chorus	Yes; costs the slave	Yes; "despite the fact" that avowed under threat (79; cf. 16)	Yes; b/w shepherd and Oedipus	Not really; but it transforms Oedipus
Lecture 3: Stoics  Examination of Conscience   Exposure of Soul	Seneca Serenus	Seneca (98) Seneca	No No	Yes Yes	No Yes	No change in status of subject; gives subject tranquility  (97) and memory (99) No; Seneca says he already was cured (103)
Lecture 3 Christian Penance (exomologesis)	Sinner (becomes Penitent)	Church authority	Yes	Yes [Unclear]?	Yes	Yes (105): exomologesis
Lecture 4 Christian Monasticism (4th-5th c.) (exagoreusis)	Christian Monk	Director	Yes	Yes	Yes (126, 129)	Yes
Lecture 5 Fixed Penance (7th c.); "juridificaiton" -- p. 178ff. Sacrament of Penance (11th-13th c.) -- p. 184ff.	Sinner Sinner	Community Confessor	Yes Yes	Yes Yes	Yes Yes	Yes Yes
Lecture 6 Judicial Avowal (16th c. - 18th c.) -- p. 201-11 Modern Examination (19c. -- ) -- p. 211ff.	Accused Accused (Dangerous Individual)	Judge (as sovereign) Examiner (see 211)	Yes Yes	Yes Yes	Yes Yes	Yes Yes

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