Discipline and Punish

Name: Discipline and Punish
Author: Michel Foucault

by Michel Foucault

History and critique of disciplinary power in modern institutions

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Michel Foucault

French philosopher and historian whose analyses of how knowledge, power, and institutions construct the subject have reshaped the humanities. Discipline and Punish examined the modern prison as a model of social control; The History of Sexuality challenged assumptions about sex and power. He died of AIDS.

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