An Analysis of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish av Meghan Kallman, Rachele Dini

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<P>Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century¿s most innovative thinkers ¿ and his work on <EM>Discipline and Punish</EM> was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book now ranks among the most influential academic works ever published.</P><P>Foucault¿s aim is to trace the way in which incarceration was transformed between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. What started as a spectacle, in which ritual punishments were focused on the prisoner¿s body, eventually became a matter of the private disciplining of a delinquent soul.</P><P>Foucault¿s work is renowned for its original insights, and <EM>Discipline and Punish</EM> contains several of his most compelling observations. Much of the focus of the book is on making new connections between knowledge and power, leading Foucault to sketch out a new interpretation of the relationship between voir, savoir and pouvoir ¿ or, ¿to see is to know is to have power.¿ Foucault also dwells in fascinating