![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What started as a spectacle, in which ritual punishments were focused on the prisoner’s body, eventually became a matter of the private disciplining of a delinquent soul.įoucault’s work is renowned for its original insights, and Discipline and Punish contains several of his most compelling observations. Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative thinkers – and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book now ranks among the most influential academic works ever published.įoucault’s aim is to trace the way in which incarceration was transformed between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. 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. ![]()
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