It was a visually striking public performance intended to demonstrate the absolute authority of the monarch. This part shows us the cruel penal system of France in the 18th century and before, the typical representative of the guillotine, which executed the prisoners in public. Therefore, the history of the development and operation of power is also the history of the objectification of everything in the world.

Since the birth of power, the owner of power has tried to bring the will to power into all aspects of human society, trying to exert the influence of power on every individual that makes up the social organism, making them submit to power, and making them become the concrete objects for power relations to play a full role. The philosophical wisdom in this also brings a lot of educational reflections.Īs for the framework of this book, first of all, Foucault examined the history of punishment power. It can make people obedient without actually punishing them. At the same time, in Foucault’s view, modern society is essentially a disciplined society. According to Foucault’s theory, the punishment ways have changed from direct destruction of the flesh to control the soul’s transition. Based on the birth of the prison process, detailed and profoundly discusses the how as a form of punishment power to change. The book’s heart discusses the operation mechanism of control in modern society with punishment and discipline. At the suggestion of the original author Foucault, the title of the book uses “discipline” because Foucault was interested in the richness of the word to express both “standardized training” as a technique of social power and “discipline” when appropriate. And then the English translation of its title was changed to Discipline and Punish by translator Alan Sheridan %%%. Foucault is the original author of the book (Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison), and the original edition is written in French.

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