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EPISODE · Jan 11, 2012

PREVIEW-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment

from The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · host Mark Linsenmayer

Discussing Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3. Are we really free? Kings no longer exert absolute and arbitrary power over us, but Foucault's picture of the evolution from torture and public executions to rehabilitative, medical-style incarceration is not so much a triumph of liberty but a shift to more subtle but more pervasive exertions of power. With guest Katie McIntyre. Looking for the full Citizen version? The post PREVIEW-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

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Discussing Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3. Are we really free? Kings no longer exert absolute and arbitrary power over us, but Foucault's picture of the evolution from torture and public executions...

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