Foucault and the Welfare State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12418030 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iván T Berend (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 551-556 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-7987 • E-ISSN: 1474-0575 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1062798705000797 |
| OpenAlex | W1981884035 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization (1961) offers a comparison between two types of answers to the same social problems: unemployment, poverty and crime. In the earlier centuries exclusion was the answer. The French Hopital General (1656) replaced it by containment. The institution was a combination of a hospital and jail and offered a solution by isolating insane, unemployed and criminal people at the expense of the society. The 20th century welfare state has a different answer to the same questions. This is, however, challenged by financial limitations. Foucault offers a solution by combining social security and individual autonomy, which was not considered to be important before
Autonomy · Civilization · Criminology · Economic growth · Economics · Institution · Michel foucault · Political science · Poverty · Prison · Social exclusion · Social science · Social security · Social Welfare · Sociology · State (computer science · Unemployment · Welfare · Welfare state · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |