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Journal Article
Moosbrugger: The genealogy of a demi-fou
2013
Overview
In this article I intend to historicise Musil's discussion of responsibility and agency by tracing the genealogy of Moosbrugger in light of Michel Foucault's writings on power. Two historical roots of this figure are of particular interest: early nineteenth-century French alienism and late nineteenth-century positivist criminology. Both of these traditions made the demi-fou, i.e. the partially insane, the touchstone of a critique of law and law's conception of man. Through the work of early nineteenth-century alienists, the madman intervenes in discourses on criminal responsibility for the first time. For late nineteenth-century criminology this body becomes a model for a society that must be defended. Moosbrugger is the offspring of these traditions but as a modernist figure he is also something more: he is, as Musil says, our collective dream.
Publisher
De Gruyter,Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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