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PREVIEW-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment

January 11, 2012 by Mark Linsenmayer 92 Comments

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Discussing Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3.

Are we really free? Kings no longer exert absolute and arbitrary power over us, but Foucault's picture of the evolution from torture and public executions to rehabilitative, medical-style incarceration is not so much a triumph of liberty but a shift to more subtle but more pervasive exertions of power. Read more about the topic and get the book.

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  1. Annette Couch says

    April 16, 2016 at 11:32 pm

    Great episode, thank you. I’m eager to take your collection from the beginning, but it is also wonderful to be able to look up particular area or philosopher, and find material so easy. Love it!

    Reply
  2. Philo Sophia says

    June 8, 2016 at 6:21 pm

    Great talk! If anyone is interested in further researching “Discipline and Punish,” we have a website that compiles citations for particular works in order to streamline philosophical research, Below is the link to citations for “Discipline and Punish.”

    https://ithinkphilosophy.blogspot.com/2016/05/discipline-and-punish-by-michel-foucault.html

    Reply
  3. Jennifer Tejada says

    January 1, 2017 at 9:50 am

    I’m betting you don’t read these, but oh well. What a great episode! PS – the name dropping is less problematic for me than the -ism dropping. I have resorted to flash cards. I write down all your -ism references and find definitions for them later. I’m not joking.

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    • Mark Linsenmayer says

      January 1, 2017 at 2:15 pm

      Thanks, Jennifer!

      Reply
  4. Kieron says

    July 18, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    I have written. About some of foucaults ideas and how they mobilise themselves in cultural texts film, etc here is a link to my blog where there is a discussion on the film contagions d foucaults notions of biopolitics coupled with Esposito notion of an immunity pathogen. https://www.vcrreviews.com/

    Reply
  5. Paynard Carinas says

    September 14, 2021 at 3:59 pm

    Nice Leiden University sent me here

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