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The ’73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, And The Genealogy Of Morals, Bernard E. Harcourt
The ’73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, And The Genealogy Of Morals, Bernard E. Harcourt
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In this essay, I explore the place of a genealogy of morals within the context of a history of political economy. More specifically, I investigate the types of moralization – of criminals and delinquents, of the disorderly, but also of political economic systems, of workers and managers, of rules and rule-breaking – that are necessary and integral to making a population accept new styles of political and economic governance, especially the punitive institutions that accompany modern political economies in the contemporary period.
The marriage of political economy and a genealogy of morals: this essay explores how the moralization of certain …