Foucault on the prison
Torturing history to punish capitalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6252365 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karl Von Schriltz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 391-411 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913819908443539 |
| OpenAlex | W2011550942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
Michel Foucault has been an academic cause célèbre for some time, spaivning untold thesis papers and dissertations illuminating oppression's invisible fingerprints on history, literature, gender, and government. Yet for all his ceutrality in American higher education, Foucault's books are not studied so much for their substantative content as for their underlying insights into the forces shaping society. This paper confronts this paradox through a critique of the apotheosis of Foucaultian analysis, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Discipline and Punish can be understood as a masterful harnessing of leftist assumptions about capitalism to reconfigure history. The extent to which Foucault distorts history to support his thesis, however, seriously undermines the practical relevance of his brand of social science
Apotheosis · Capitalism · Criminology · Government (linguistics · Left-wing politics · Michel foucault · Objectivism · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prison · Relevance (law · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2018 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |