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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
work by Foucault
Also known as: “Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison”
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discussed in biography
- In Michel Foucault: Education and career
…naissance de la prison (1975; Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison), a monograph on the emergence of the modern prison; three volumes of a history of Western sexuality; and numerous essays. Foucault continued to travel widely, and as his reputation grew he spent extended periods in Brazil, Japan,…
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history of philosophy
- In Western philosophy: Recent trends
In later books such as Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), Foucault’s gaze shifted to systems of power. In a Nietzschean spirit, he coined the term power-knowledge to indicate the involvement of knowledge in the maintenance of power relations. As he argued in the essay “Nietzsche,…
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