Bentham's Prison: A Study of the Panopticon PenitentiaryAt the end of the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham devised a scheme for a prison that he called the panopticon. For twenty years he tried to build it; in the end he failed, but the story of his attempt offers fascinating insights into both Bentham's complex character and the ideas of the period. Basing her analysis on hitherto unexamined manuscripts, Janet Semple chronicles Bentham's dealings with the politicians as he tried to put his plan into practice. She assesses the panopticon in the context of penal philosophy and eighteenth-century punishment and discusses it as an instrument of the modern technology of subjection as revealed and analyzed by Foucault. |
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Jeremy Bentham and the Origins of the Panopticon | 20 |
A View of the Hard Labour Bill and the Penitentiary | 39 |
John Howard and the Origins of the Panopticon | 62 |
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Bentham's Prison : A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary: A Study of the ... Janet Semple Vista previa restringida - 1993 |
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| Título | Bentham's Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary |
| Autor | Janet Semple |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | Clarendon Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0198273878, 9780198273875 |
| N.º de páginas | 344 páginas |
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