THE COURAGE OF TRUTH

Abstract

The paper argues that in Law and Truth II. Genealogy(ies) we find the theoretical premises that constitute an instrument for the historical analysis of Law. Specifically, it is emphasized that the philosophical categories that are used in the project emerge as a source of interpretation. On the one hand, to single out the different perspectives that have approached the study of truth in the law from the perspective of the History of the Law; and, on the other hand, to account for the methodological variants that such perspectives display. In this sense, it is suggested that the book has two directions of fit, from Legal Theory to the History of Law and vice versa. On, either way, the relevance of Foucault’s ideas is highlighted