Bentham's Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary
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Book details
- Author
- Janet Semple
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Greece
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780198273875
- ISBN-10
- 0198273878
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Bentham's Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary
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ISBN: 0198273878
Author: Semple, Janet
Condition: New
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.
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