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Discussing Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3.
This is a 33-minute preview of our vintage 1 hr, 42-minute episode which you can buy at partiallyexaminedlife.com/store or get it for free with PEL Citizenship (see partiallyexaminedlife.com/membership). You can also purchase the full episode in the iTunes Store: Search for "Partially Danto" and look under "Albums."
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.
Featuring guest participant Katie McIntyre, doctoral candidate at Columbia.
End songs: Two short, stinky tunes from the Mark Lint album, Black Jelly Beans & Smokes, "The Zoo Song" and "Solitary Drama," both from 1991.
Annette Couch says
April 16, 2016 at 11:32 pmGreat 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!
Philo Sophia says
June 8, 2016 at 6:21 pmGreat 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
Jennifer Tejada says
January 1, 2017 at 9:50 amI’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.
Mark Linsenmayer says
January 1, 2017 at 2:15 pmThanks, Jennifer!