In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In the former, power is visibly exerted, for instan…
This book combines an appreciation of Bentham's broader project with an engagement of Foucault's insights on economic government to go beyond the received reading of panopticism as a dark disciplinary technology of power. It is essential reading for historians of intellectual hi…
The love of wisdom in the age of mass incarceration
Western philosophy's relationship with prisons stretches from Plato's own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration. "Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration" draws together a broad range of philosophical thinkers, from both inside …
Editors Sarah Tyson and Joshua M. Hall convene an international group of philosophical thinkers-from both inside and outside prison walls-who draw on a variety of historical figures and critical perspectives to think about prisons in our new historical era.
"This book brings together a collection of social justice scholars and activists who take Foucault's concept of discipline and punishment to explain how prisons are constructed in society from nursing homes to zoos. This book expands the concept of prison to include any institut…