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An Introduction to Foucault and His Concepts

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The Disciplined Body of the Soldier

In the 18th century, disciplinary technologies made possible new procedures that could break down the body and reconstruct it entirely. This is why Foucault draws such a fascinating line of comparison between the materialisms spawned by Leimnitz and Le Matre to Napoleon. All these forms of intercepting abnormality and attempting to redirect individuals have the goal of normalization.

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