Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison

from TeaTimeCoder

Interesting to see how penal/educational/employment systems which seem obvious now developed. Although I think this happened in a more haphazard, unplanned way than what the author proposes.

from TakeItOrLeaveIt

Foucault is a historian, at least a his-story-ian. and this is an interesting story. take the soul out of the prisoner, the atrocities of the execution, the discipline and punishment pre 1847 when peasants enjoyed the spectacle of watching a man have his limb's ripped apart for killing another ma...

from AlexTheHunn

Foucault relates developments in prisons and punishment with larger trends in culture and civilization. He argues that ancient regime punishment of the body evolved into punishment of the mind or spirit. He relates these changes to capitalism.

from bnielsen

Indeholder "The body of the condemned", "The spectacle of the scaffold". "The body of the condemned" handler om ??? "The spectacle of the scaffold" handler om ??? Foucault's syn på fængsling og henrettelse.

from Ramirez

Prison is the symbol of a certain idea of society and of the mechanics of power inside it. From the excessive and bloody justice of the ancien régime to a disciplinary society in which ongoing examinations take place every time and the judges-controllers are a lot more than we think. Foucault giv...