{(1) Michel Foucault (2) Moralizing and Administration [continued]}[9th April 1991]

[Redbook9:54-55][19910409:0923g]{(1) Michel Foucault (2) Moralizing and Administration [continued]}[9th April 1991]

19910409.0923

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*‘The death of Victorian England signified, among other things, the transference of responsibility from the individual to the state.’

**

The previous extracted article** is in[this journal] for two reasons: the reaction*** against Michel Focault in the first three paragraphs,** which brings out the ultimate dissolution characteristic of R~ in its most extreme form, as manifest in this kind of theory; and the rest of the article, whose ideas are more difficult to analyse in C[ircles] A[nalysis] and S[ynthesis] terms.

The article implies a three-fold division of the Victorian era, roughly along these lines:

Period System:		C[ommon] E[ra]	C[ircles] A[nalysis] and S[ynthesis] (64 y[ea]rs)
			(1832J~ )	(2048R~1792)
1st theory/		1837	1840G~
period:	Early Victorian		1848R~
‘Disciplinary		1856	1856C
Moralisation’	Mid Victorian		1864S~(-r~)
(↓)****		1875	1872M~
	----------------------		1880U~
2nd theory/	Late Victorian		1888A~
Period:		1901	1896J~
‘Welfarist	+ Edwardian		1904G~
Administration’		1910	1912R~
			1920C	(2048R~C~)

It is difficult to reconcile this in any straightforward way with the major C[ircles] A[nalysis] and S[ynthesis] cycles. The reviewer seems to feel that the ‘moralisation’ continued into late Victorian times, overlapping with administrative solutions: this makes a great deal more sense. So does the transfer or responsibility from the individual to the State, in the 2048-[&-]64-year# context around 1900.#*

*[See fn=# below]

**[ibid (per last previous ts entry): ‘Suitable cases for treatment[:] Moral attitudes to crime and punishment in Victorian England’, by Gertrude Himmelfarb, Times Literary Supplement 15/03/1991:7]

***[& in 1991 (per fn=** above); 64S~1992....]

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#[sic; ‘-year &’ is deleted in ms, but probably the ‘&’ should have remained.]

#*↑[See text above marked]*

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