福柯曾运用谱系学方法对“真理与司法形式”的主题作过经典分析。司法史上存在三种司法形式:考验式、讯问式和检查式。每一种司法形式体现了各自不同的真理证明方式,而各个时代的政治模式、经济结构决定了司法形式的选择。司法制度是国家政治制度、权力技术、社会控制手段的一个方面;司法的历史绝不是单纯的人类理性进化史和知识发展史,而是权力逻辑下的产物。 Foucault used the method of pedigree to make a classical analysis of the subject of “truth and judicial form.” There are three types of judicature in judicial history: test, interrogation and examination. Each judicial form embodies different ways of truth proof, and the political and economic structures of various times determine the choice of judicial form. The judicial system is one aspect of the political system, power technology and social control means of the state. The history of the judiciary is by no means a mere historical evolution of human reason and history of knowledge, but a product of logic of power.