Bernard Harcourt
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Bernard Harcourt |
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Major Areas of Interest: |
- Modern European and American Political and Social Thought |
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Selected Publications: |
- ed., Michel Foucault, Mal faire, dire vrai (Louvain 2012 and Chicago forthcoming) (with F. Brion) |
| E-Mail: | harcourt@uchicago.edu |
| Website: | http://bernardharcourt.com/ |
| Phone: | (773) 702-8050; (773) 834-4068 |
| Office: | Pick 404 |
| Office hours: | TH 2:00 – 4:00 or by appt. |
Bernard E. Harcourt is a critical theorist with a specialization in the area of punishment and political economy. He is the chair of the Political Science Department, professor of political science, and the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the author most recently of The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard University Press 2011). He is the co-editor with Fabienne Brion of Michel Foucault's 1981 Louvain lectures, Mal faire, dire vrai. Fonction de l'aveu en justice (in French 2012 with Presses Universitaires de Louvain and forthcoming in English with University of Chicago Press). He has also written on the actuarial turn in justice in Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (University of Chicago Press 2007), on broken-windows theory in his book Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken-Windows Policing (Harvard University Press 2001) and on youth gun carrying in Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press 2005). He also founded and edits a critical journal called The Carceral Notebooks.
