Michel Foucault’s ”The Punitive Society” (Part 1/4)
Theory & Philosophy
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Foucault's Punishment
In the early 19th century, early 1800s, we see four points that we need to analyze or four phenomena. The first was the universal state of war between the rich and the poor because there's so many revolts. There was a penal system that is not universal, but made by one group for another. Third, the universal system of superintendents and surveillance, this new panoptic system to place the people under control to better watch them. Fourth, the emergence of a system of confinement at this time.
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