Discipline and Punish
内容简介
In the middle ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the eighteenth century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul.
Foucault shows in fascinating detail the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies of social control --- and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole. He also reveals that the comparison between a school and a prison is not purely facetious --- prisons, schools, factories, barracks and hospitals all share a common organization, in which it is possible to control the use of an individual's time and space hour by hour.
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作者简介
Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world. Social scientist and historian of ideas, Foucault was Professor of History of Systems of Thought at the College de France. He wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews, and edited Critique. Among his many publications are Madness and Civilization (1961), The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972), The Birth of the Clinic (1973), Discipline and Punish (1975), and three volumes of the History of Sexuality: Volume One, the Will to Knowledge (1976); Volume Two, The Use of Pleasure (1984); and Volume Three: The Care for the Self (1984). Professor Foucault died in 1984.
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读书文摘
一个建筑物不再仅仅是为了被人观赏（如宫殿的浮华）或是为了观看外面的空间（如堡全的设计），而是为了便于对内进行清晰而细致的控制——使建筑物里的人一举一动都彰明较著。用更一般的语言说，一个建筑物应该能改造人：对居住者发生作用，有助于控制他们的行为，便于对他们恰当地发挥权力的影响，有助于了解他们，改变他们。
总之，在这种刑法机制中，关键是通过一种机制来产生事实真相。这种机制包含两个因素，一个是由司法机关秘密进行的调查，另一个是被告的仪式行为——43 在古典时期的拷问中，除了表面上有一种对事实真相的坚决而急切的寻求外，还隐含着一种有节制的神裁法机制：用肉体考验来确定事实真相——44
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