Disciplinary Power and Law in Michel Foucault. Critical Notes

Abstract

One of the most interesting contributions of Michel Foucault’s reflections during the 1970s has been to account for productive operation of power relations. In this paper I try to show that although Foucault has postulated a productive functioning of power relations, he maintained a purely repressive look on the law. Also, I try to show that the reduction of the law to a mere prohibition prevented him from giving account of the role of law in disciplinary societies.

Keywords

• Poder
• disciplina
• derecho
• represión
• prohibición.