GCJ: The media could not be loaded. As a school administrator, Foucault’s book brings great insight in discipline at school, and how we must reevaluate how we handle students, so we do not perpetuate the same practices of two centuries ago.
The paper back has newsprint quality pages with small text. I am nearsighted, so it is fine for me.
United States on Dec 23, 2023
F: Recommended.
Italy on Aug 02, 2023
Becky H: Wunderschönes Cover und ein sehr interessantes Buch! Sowhol als private Lektüre als auch für die Uni sehr bereichernd gewesen. Es gibt philosophische, soziologische, historische und auch architektonische Einblicke in das System!
Germany on Jul 16, 2023
Aran Joseph Canes: It’s a curious fact, but if you want to understand some of today’s most controversial issues, you have to read the works of a French philosopher who died in 1984.
That philosopher is of course Michel Foucault. His most influential works were genealogies of phenomena as diverse as modern sexuality, clinics and prisons.
The key to understanding him is to understand what Foucault meant by a genealogy. It was not a history or even a history of ideas. It was instead how a body of knowledge, or science, had developed and been used to seize and wield power. Explicitly denying the fact that objective sciences of humanity were possible, he saw psychology, criminology and even to an extent physiology as merely tools of power.
That’s why he begins Discipline and Punish with a subject as seemingly esoteric as the classical theory that any crime was an attack on the king’s metaphorical body. Thus, he describes the elaborate public ritual where redress was made on the prisoner’s physical body.
What Foucault wants is to convince the reader that this archaic form of punishment was rational to the men of that day. By this, he can shake from the reader’s head...
United States on Oct 12, 2022
Richard Elendu: Exactly what I expected
Canada on Jan 30, 2022
Marietta: I got this (Kindle version) to help with information for my Postgrad Masters. I’m doing Visual Arts/Fine Art and my subject is Witchcraft and looking specifically at the Witch trials of the 1600’s. Skip the parts about prisons and get to the punishments and tortures, which are particularly relevant to how witches were treated to get confessions and their subsequent mode of death. I’m not even half way through and have so many great quotes.
United Kingdom on Apr 15, 2021
Finis: It's an interesting book. The type of one that makes one realize we are worse off then ever if people would bother reading these things or even considering these thing. Quotes like these one are worth paying attention too, its a good example of how the elite view the masses. I found this interesting pg. 102-103 for the interested reader.
"When you have thus formed the CHAIN OF IDEAS IN THE HEADS OF YOUR CITIZENS, you will then be able to PRIDE YOURSELVES ON GUIDING THEM AND BEING THEIR MASTERS. A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas; it is at the stable point of reason that he secures the end of the chain; this link is all the stronger in what we do not know of what it is made and we believe it to be our own work; despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel; but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas; they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibers of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires (103) More or less nothing is true and everything is permitted appears to be the mindset. Quotes like these one were...
United States on May 15, 2019
Pablo: LIBRO imprescindible para los estudiantes de sociología, filosofía o ciencias políticas y comprender el actual sistema penintenciario occidental. Gran autor
Spain on Mar 16, 2018
Amazon Customer: Michel Foucault is the writer who has had the strongest influence on me in the last 10 years. Audiobooks are the only way I can absorb Foucault. Foucault is amazing, essential, mind expanding; but dense. I had to learn how to 'read' him first. My partner taught me that rather than reading a passage, understanding it fully, moving on to the next in a linear sequence; with him its better to read in waves, revisiting, letting words wash over a couple of times. Words gather meaning with him incrementally, nuance is built in layers as he goes from positing a statement, to illustrating it in plain speak, to explaining it through a historic example, to another example and another etc, finally leaving you with a very 3 dimensional idea of a concept, as its meaning has been 'triangulated' from many angles.
Translating him cannot be easy. The 4 stars, is because i think he can be translated simpler for today.
United States on Oct 12, 2016
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