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- The body as an object to be acted upon, but also as the subject of "political technology" is present throughout the work. Beginning with public execution, where the body is horrifically displayed, Foucault charts the transition to a situation where the body is no longer immediately affected.
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Summary. Foucault begins by comparing a public execution from 1757 to an account of prison rules from 1837. The shifts between the two reveal how new codes of law and order developed. One important feature is the disappearance of torture; the body of the criminal disappeared from view.
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This is a summary of Michel Foucault's seminal work on the history of criminal punishment and social discipline as it transformed from punitive to correctional models during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary: “The body of the condemned” The book opens with a detailed description of the public execution of Damiens the regicide on March 2, 1757. Foucault’s account of the event is graphic; he describes how Damiens was covered in boiling oil and molten lead, as well as the repeated attempts to quarter the body by using ...
Feb 1, 2016 · Michael Foucault’s classic “The Body of the Condemned” covers that drastic changes that crime and punishment has seen in the past couple centuries, both in morality and in practice.
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Summary. Foucault begins his "history of the prison" by comparing two sets of documents. One set, from 1757, describes the public torture and execution of a prisoner, named Damiens, for the attempted murder of the king. The other, from the 1830s, is the timetable describing the daily schedule of prisoners in one Paris institution.
Dec 31, 2023 · Foucault begins “Discipline and Punish” with a graphic depiction of a public execution in 1757, illustrating the brutal and theatrical nature of corporal punishment in the pre-modern era. These spectacles served as a means of asserting sovereign power and deterring crime through fear and awe.
