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- Michel Foucault. Truth and Juridical Forms. Translated by Lawrence Williams with Catherine Merlen. Arizona State University.
Translator’s foreword
This text was originally presented in French at a conference at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in May 1973. It was subsequently translated to Portuguese by J.W. Prado for publication in the June 1974 issue of Cardernos da PUC, and then into French by P.W. Prado Jr, published by Gallimard, Paris, in 1994 in M. Foucault, Dits et écrits. This French translation was established from the Portuguese translation with the help of recordings taped during the conference. This English translation is based on the text published in 1994 by Gallimard. Footnote 1 refers to a note by the translator of this text, on the translation from the French into English. In the 1994 French translation, the translator of the Portuguese text into French indicated that the word épreuve was left in French in the Portuguese translation. The translator of this text has decided to keep it in French too.
Foucault, M. (1994) ‘La Vérité et les formes juridiques,’ in D. Defert and F. Ewald (eds) Dits et écrits 1954–1988, Vol. II, 1970–1975, pp. 538–646, Paris: Gallimard. This was translated from the original publication in Portuguese, M. Foucault (1974) ‘A verdade e as formas juridicas,’ Trad. J.W. Prado Jr, Cadernos da PUC, 1974: 16, pp. 5–133. (Discussion with M.T. Amaral, R.O. Cruz, C. Katz, L.C. Lima, R. Machado, R. Muraro, H. Pelegrino, M.J. Pinto, A.R. de Sant’Anna, at conferences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 21–25 May 1973.) From Dits et écrits 1954–88, Volume II, to be published by The New Press. © Editions Gallimard 1994.
