Editor's Preface

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Inaugural Lecture: April 2, 1981 / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

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Dr. Leuret, avowal, and the therapeutic operation. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The supposed effects of truth-telling about oneself and of knowledge of the self. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Characteristics of avowal. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The spread of avowal within Western Christian societies: individuals bound to their truth and obligated in their relationships to others through the truth told. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

A historical-political problem: how the individual binds himself to his truth and to the power that exerts itself upon him. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

A historical-philosophical problem: how individuals are bound by forms of veridiction. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

A counterpoint to positivism: a critical philosophy of veridictions. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The problem of "who is being judged" in penal institutions. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Penal practices and technologies of government. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Governing through truth. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

First Lecture

April 22, 1981 / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

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A political and institutional ethnology of truthful speech. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Truth-telling and speaking justice. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Scope of the study. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Veridiction and jurisdiction in Homer's Iliad. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The competition between Menelaus and Antilochus. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The object of Antilochus's avowal. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Justice and agon; agon and truth. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The chariot race and the challenge of the oath, two liturgies of truth, two games designed to represent justly the truth of their respective strengths. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

A ritual of commemoration. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Veridiction and jurisdiction in Hesiod's Works and Days. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Dikazein and krinein. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The oath of the accusers and the co-jurors in dikazein: a game of two parties, the criteria being the social status of the adversaries. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The oath of the judge in krinein: a game of three parties, the criteria being dikaion. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The social weight of adversaries and "the reality of things": dikaion and alethes. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Second Lecture

April 28, 1981 / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

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The representation of law in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

A judicial paradigm. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Essential elements of the tragedy. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Two recognitions, three alethurgies. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Veridiction and prophecy. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Veridiction and tyranny. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Veridiction and witnessing avowal. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Grandeur of the parties, freedom to speak, and the effect of truth in the inquiry. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Recognition by the chorus, conditions for recognition by Oedipus. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

From truth-telling to saying "I." / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

A procedure that conforms to nomos, a veridiction that repeats the word of the prophet and completes that of the man of techne technes. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Third Lecture

April 29, 1981 / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

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Hermeneutics of the text and hermeneutics of the self in early Christianity. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Veridiction of the self in pagan antiquity. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The Pythagorean examination of conscience: purification of self and mnemotechnics. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The Stoic examination of conscience: the government of the self and the remembering of codes. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The Stoic expositio animae: medicine of passions and degrees of liberty. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Penance in early Christianity. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

The problem of reintegration. / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

Penance as a status that manifests a particular state. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

The meanings of exomologesis. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

A life in the form of avowal, an avowal in the form of life. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

A ritual of supplication. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Beyond the medical or judicial, the model of the martyr. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Veridiction of the self and mortification of the self. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

From the public manifestation of the self as sinner to the verbalization of the self: temptation and illusion. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Fourth Lecture

May 6, 1981 / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

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Practice of veridiction in monastic institutions of the fourth and fifth centuries: the Apophthegmata patrum and the writings of Cassian. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Monasticism: between the life of penance and philosophical existence. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Characteristics of the direction of conscience in ancient culture. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Characteristics of the direction of conscience in monasticism: an obedience that is continuous, formal, and self-referential; humility, patience, and submission; the inversion of the relationship to verbalization. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Characteristics of the examination of conscience in monasticism: from action to thought. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Mobility of thought and illusion. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Discrimen and discretio: avowal and the origin of thought. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Veridiction of the self, hermeneutics of thought, and the rights-bearing subject. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Fifth Lecture

May 13, 1981 / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

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Characteristics of exagoreusis in the fourth and fifth centuries. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Renunciation of the self. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Truth of the text and truth of the self. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

The separation and adjustment of the hermeneutics of the text and the hermeneutics of the self in Protestantism. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Illusion, evidence, and meaning (Descartes and Locke). / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Illusion of the self about the self and the unconscious (Schopenhauer and Freud). / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Juridification of avowal in the ecclesiastical tradition from the fourth to the seventh centuries. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Co-penetration of exagoreusis and exomologesis in the first monastic and lay communities. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Characteristics and origins of fixed penance: the monastic model and the model of Germanic law. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Sacramentalization and institutionalization of obligatory confession in the thirteenth century. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Juridification of the relationship between man and God. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Forms and meanings of avowal in the confessio oris. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Sixth Lecture

May 20, 1981 / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

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Juridification in ecclesiastical and political institutions. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

From God as judge to a state of justice: sovereignty and truth. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Avowal, torture, and inquisitorial tests of truth. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Avowal, torture, and legal proofs. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Avowal, sovereign law, sovereign conscience, and punitive engagement. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Auto-veridiction, evidence, and penal dramaturgy. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Hetero-veridiction, examination, and legal psychiatry. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Relating the act to its author: the question of criminal subjectivity in the nineteenth century. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Monomania and the constitution of crime as psychiatric object. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Degeneration and the creation of the criminal as object for social defense. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

From responsibility to dangerousness, from the rights-bearing subject to the criminal individual. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

The question of criminal subjectivity in the twentieth century. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Hermeneutics of the subject and the meaning of crime for the criminal. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Accident, probability, and indices of criminal risk. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Veridiction of the subject and the breach in the contemporary penal system. / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Appendixes / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

Interview with Andre Berten: May 7, 1981 / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

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Interview with Christian Panier and Pierre Watte: May 14, 1981 / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

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Interview with Jean Francois and John De Wit: May 22, 1981 / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

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The Louvain Lectures in Context / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

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Acknowledgments to the French Edition / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

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Acknowledgments to the English Edition / Bernard E. Harcourt Fabienne Brion

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Index of Notions and Concepts / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

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Index of Proper Names / Fabienne Brion Bernard E. Harcourt

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