Discipline and Punish
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in West
Cover of the French edition
Robert-François Damiens
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Robert-François Damiens was a French domestic servant whose attempted assassination of King Louis XV in 1757 culminated in his public execution. He was the last person to be executed in France by dism
Discipline and Punish
…four parts: torture, punishment, discipline, and prison. Foucault begins by contrasting two forms of penalty: the violent and chaotic public torture of Robert-François Damiens, who was convicted of attempted regicide in the mid-18th century, and the highly regimented daily schedule for inmates from an early 19th-century prison…
Robert damiens
King Louis XV
Damiens before his judges
Execution of Damiens