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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by 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and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.
Michel Foucault. Paul-Michel Foucault ( UK: / ˈfuːkoʊ / FOO-koh, US: / fuːˈkoʊ / foo-KOH; [ 9] French: [pɔl miʃɛl fuko]; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who also served as an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the ...
The "culture of spectacle" included public displays of torture, dismemberment, and obliteration of the human body as punishment. [17] Foucault opened Discipline and Punish with a detailed description of the execution of the French citizen, Robert-François Damiens in 1757 as punishment for regicide in a public display of drawing and quartering.
The Committee of General Security ( French: Comité de sûreté générale) was a parliamentary committee of the French National Convention which acted as police agency during the French Revolution. Established as a committee of the Convention in October 1792, it was designed to protect the Revolutionary Republic from internal enemies.
In critical theory, philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French: le regard ), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. The concept and the social applications of the gaze have been defined and explained by existentialist and ...
A United Nations body has criticized France's ban on its athletes wearing the hijab at next year's summer Olympics. Asked about the decision to ban French athletes from wearing the hijab at the ...
A French author and anatomist, Charles Estienne undertakes anatomical dissection on a massive scale. He publishes all of his findings in his book Dissection Des Parties Du Corps Humain, which translates to Dissection Of The Parts Of The Human Body. Estienne’s findings in regard to the clitoris are anatomically incorrect and fundamentally flawed.
Biopower (or biopouvoir in French), coined by French social theorist Michel Foucault, [1] refers to various means by which modern nation states control their populations.In Foucault's work, it has been used to refer to practices of public health, regulation of heredity, and risk regulation, among many other regulatory mechanisms often linked less directly with literal physical health.