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Bentham's Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary Book

Bentham's Prison : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198273875 : 0198273878 : 26 Aug 1993 : Tells the story of Jeremy Bentham's dealings with the politicians as he tried to get his model prison (panopticon) built, assesses the panopticon in the context of penal philosophy and of 18th-century punishment, and discusses it as an instrument of the modern technology of subjection.Read More

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    Tells the story of Jeremy Bentham's dealings with the politicians as he tried to get his model prison (panopticon) built assesses the panopticon in the context of penal philosophy and of 18th-century punishment and discusses it as an instrument of the modern technology of subjection.

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    At 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.

  • 0198273878
  • 9780198273875
  • Janet Semple
  • 8 July 1993
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 360
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