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![]() ![]() Foucault’s work is renowned for its original insights, and Discipline and Punish contains several of his most compelling observations. ![]() ![]() 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. Foucault’s aim is to trace the way in which incarceration was transformed between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. ![]() Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative thinkers – and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book now ranks among the most influential academic works ever published. ![]()
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