In many ways, society is living in a Panopticon today. This concept was centuries ahead of its time. It revolves around the concept of power (initially with the king), punishment, society's attitudes towards this, discipline and society and finally, the Panopticon. I don't think that 'the birth of the prison' is a good subtitle. For me, the most interesting chapters were those that pertained to discipline, the panopticon, and delinquency. It has just disappeared from the public eye.įrom there, he moves on to the concept of punishment, and the various theories that prevailed. We may be squeamish today, but we cannot state that torture has disappeared from the world. The final stages of the torture, and the execution used to take place in the public sphere. The book starts with the description of a prisoner being tortured and killed. Foucaults highly original vision of prisons also ties them to broader structures of power, allowing him to argue that all previous conceptions of prison. I must say that "Discipline and Punish" is a difficult book to review. Michel Foucault, on the Role of Prisons By ROGER-POL DROIT.
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