From: ccw94-AT-aber.ac.uk Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 10:31:44 +0100 Subject: Re: The Object of Discipline Produce, I think would be the most common answer, although Russell Keat did an excellent article in Radical Philosophy which argued that Foucault also had a repressive Hypothesis. As you seem to be pointing out though there is a tension which arises with the use of the word 'disciplinary'. >I am currently reading Discipline and Punish and I need a little >clarification. According to Foucault, "the art of punishing in the >regime of disciplinary power is aimed neither at expiation, nor even >precisely at repression." Then what, according to Foucault, does >disciplinary punishment aim to do? > >Thank You >William Bock > > -------------------------------------------------------- "What I try to achieve is the history of the relations which thought maintains with truth; the history of thought insofar as it is the thought of truth. All those who say truth does not exist for me are simple minded." (Foucault) Colin Wight Department of International Politics University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth SY23 3DA --------------------------------------------------------
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