Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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Librarian note an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner s body to his soul. New Read Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Surveiller et punir Naissance de la Prison Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison, Michel FoucaultDiscipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison is a 1975 book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France Foucault argues that prison did not become the principal form of punishment just because of the Surveiller et punir Naissance de la Prison Discipline and Punish The Birth ...This book begins with a bang in fact, a series of bangs That is the point, you see We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past We too easily forget that there was a time when people like us actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine Now, we struggle to believe that people who lived 20 or 30 years ago where quite like us even when we ourselves were those people Today we cast off selves and disown past selves like our This book begins with a bang in fact, a series of bangs That is the point, you see We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past We too easily forget that there was a time when people like us actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine Now, we struggle to believe that people who lived 20 or 30 years ago where quite like us even when we ourselves were those people Today we cast off selves and disown past selves like our endlessly cheap clothes cheaper to buy than to wash, as someone pointed out recently or like snakes and their skins, cicadas and their chrysalises For, as Foucault points out here, the point of history isn t for us to understand the past that is dead and gone and has only the meaning we can give it from our vantage point the point of history is to provide the narrative that helps us to und...Discipline makes individuals it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exerciseMichel Foucault, Discipline and Punish I ve had this book for nearly twenty years on myself Before a couple weeks ago I never quite found myself in the right mood for a French post structural look at power, prisons, and punishment It is interesting reading this and thinking about how influential Foucault was in the modern criticisms of theDiscipline makes individuals it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exerciseMichel Foucault, Discipline and Punish I ve had this book for nearly twenty years on myself Before a couple weeks ago I never quite found myself in the right mood for a French post structural look at power, prisons, and punishment It is interesting reading this and thinking about how influential Foucault was in the modern criticisms of the penal system, and various areas of control schools, hospitals, psychiatric facilities, the military and prisons.I didn t realize until I read the prologue that the Disciple part of the title was originally Surveiller Watch et punir Punish It made sense back in the day to use discipline, but given the giant NSA observation issues, I kinda hope they consider changing the title at some...NEW REVIEW it tookthan a few days to get back to this I hope someone reads it lol I will add only a few additional comments to what I ve already written below and in the comments sections It will be enough andthan enough.I came at this book with decades of prejudice built up and it showed in my essentially failed reading of Madness and Civilization I knew that Foucault was a fake and a charlatan before I ever cracked a page So to speak So one can imagine my surprise NEW REVIEW it tookthan a few days to get back to this I hope someone reads it lol I will add only a few additional comments to what I ve already written below and in the comments sections It will be enough andthan enough.I came at this book with decades of prejudice built up and it showed in my essentially failed reading of Madness and Civilization I knew that Foucault was a fake and a charlatan before I ever cracked a page So to speak So one can imagine my surprise at discovering that he was, in fact, a philosophical genius of sorts, and that this book though difficult, slow, craggy, like cracking nuts , paragraph by paragraph, was full of insight and sense and interest To all those who are skeptical of opening up a front here, and...Foucault begins this book by recounting the fate of a man called Damien the regicide, who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV of France in 1757 He was publicly tortured for hours, beaten, stabbed and crushed only to be quartered by horses at last Foucault says that Public executions and scenes like this were common and happened every once in a while for those who were accused of heinous crimes This practice, perfectly inhuman and brutish, was officially sanctioned just two centuries ago Foucault begins this book by recounting the fate of a man called Damien the regicide, who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV of France in 1757 He was publicly tortured for hours, beaten, stabbed and crushed only to be quartered by horses at last Foucault says that Public executions and scenes like this were common and happened every once in a while for those who were accused of heinous crimes This practice, perfectly inhuman and brutish, was officially sanctioned just two centuries ago Criminals were subjected to torture, flogging, beating, humiliation and beheading in public But the most surprising thing is that all this ended rather suddenly in the 19th century, which is when the modern prison system was born Foucault is meticulous He inspects each and everything from philosophical and psychological point of view He disrobes the myth and romance of history only to show us a picture that is as real as it is shocking For the most part...I ve read this book three times First time was in undergraduate, second time was in law school, third time was last week I can honestly say that my understanding of this work has grown with each reading, but that growth in comprehension has comefrom my reading of other books either discussing or related to Discipline and Punish.Specifically, I would recommend Jurgen Habermas s critique of Foucault, although I now forget which book of his contains his critique I would also recommend I ve read this book three times First time was in undergraduate, second time was in law school, third time was last week I can honestly say that my understanding of this work has grown with each reading, but that growth in comprehension has comefrom my reading of other books either discussing or related to Discipline and Punish.Specifically, I would recommend Jurgen Habermas s critique of Foucault, although I now forget which book of his contains his critique I would also recommend Goffman s Asylums and Sykes The Society of the Prison as works which can illuminate Foucault s oft dense prose.Foucault s main thesis is that the transistion of society into modernity has resulted in institutions which are increasingly devoted to the control of the inmate s time The instituions use this c...In many ways a response to the French government s penal codes of the 60s and 70s but also a continuation of Foucault s work in Madness and Civilization, the influence of DP can be seen everywhere from Spielberg s Minority Report to Enemy of the State to Ted Conover s Newjack and most if not all critiques of surveillant governments It s also a horrifying read, starting out as it does with an account of the ritualistic execution of a regicide, which Foucault compares favorably to the In many ways a response to the French government s penal codes of the 60s and 70s but also a continuation of Foucault s work in Madness and Civilization, the influence of DP can be seen everywhere from Spielberg s Minority Report to Enemy of the State to Ted Conover s Newjack and most if not all critiques of surveillant governments It s a...Is the world turning into a panopticon in which everyone of us cannot evade the gaze of whoever occupying the central point Though finding this book to be making a powerful argument, I do have doubts as to whether surveillance only without corporal violence could impose discipline in other words, whether the observed really interiorize the system of surveillance , and also I doubt as to whether the systems of micro power really fits into a bigger top down power hierarchy I like the example Is the world turning into a panopticon in which everyone of us cannot evade the gaze of whoever occupying the central point Though finding this book to be making a powerful argument, I do have doubts as to whether surveillance only without corporal violence could impose discipline in other words, whether the observed really interiorize the system of surveillance , and also I doubt as to whether the systems of micro power really fits into a bigger top down power hierarchy I like the example of the school Foucault used, but I personally think that students have certain power over the teachers as the teache...This book rearranged my brain I have never read something that met my intuition half way, and then expanded my vision beyond all critical capacities I knew before I will never conceive of power, structures, k...

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
  • English
  • 27 January 2018
  • Paperback
  • 352 pages
  • 0679752552
  • Michel Foucault
  • Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison