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Beyond Foucault

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New Perspectives on Bentham's Panopticon

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New Perspectives on Bentham's Panopticon
Edited ByAnne Brunon-Ernst
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 12 April 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569192
Pages 246
eBook ISBN 9781315569192
Subjects Humanities, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Brunon-Ernst, A. (Ed.). (2012). Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham's Panopticon (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569192

ABSTRACT

In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In the former, power is visibly exerted, for instance by the destruction of the body of the criminal, while in the latter power becomes invisible and focuses on the mind of the subject, in order to identify, marginalize, and 'treat' those who are regarded as incapable of participating in, or unwilling to submit to, the disciplines of production. The Panopticon links the worlds of Bentham and Foucault scholars yet they are often at cross-purposes; with Bentham scholars lamenting the ways in which Foucault is perceived to have misunderstood panopticon, and Foucauldians apparently unaware of the complexities of Bentham's thought. This book combines an appreciation of Bentham's broader project with an engagement of Foucault's insights on economic government to go beyond the received reading of panopticism as a dark disciplinary technology of power. Scholars here offer new ways of understanding the Panopticon projects through a wide variety of topics including Bentham's plural Panopticons and their elaboration of schemes of 'panoptic Utopia', the 'inverted Panopticon', 'panoptic governance', 'political panopticism' and 'legal panopticism'. French studies on the Panopticon are groundbreaking and this book brings this research to an English-speaking audience for the first time. It is essential reading, not only for those studying Bentham and Foucault, but also those with an interest in intellectual history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and those studying contemporary surveillance and society.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

ByAnne Brunon-Ernst

part |2 pages

Part I: Historiography Reconsidered: From Discipline to Governmentality

chapter 1|26 pages

Deconstructing Panopticism into the Plural Panopticons

ByAnne Brunon-Ernst

chapter 2|18 pages

From Discipline and Punish to The Birth of Biopolitics

ByChristian Laval

part |2 pages

Part II: Status of the Panopticon in Prison, Penal and Constitutional Reform

chapter 3|16 pages

From ‘Utopia’ to ‘Programme’: Building a Panopticon in Geneva

Edited ByAnne Brunon-Ernst

chapter 4|36 pages

Penal eory without the Panopticon

ByJean-Pierre Cléro

chapter 5|26 pages

From the Penitentiary to the Political Panoptic Paradigm

ByGuillaume Tusseau

part |2 pages

Part III: Is There a Panoptic Society? Social Control in Bentham and Foucault

chapter 6|18 pages

Transparency and Politics: e Reversed Panopticon as a Response to Abuse of Power

Edited ByAnne Brunon-Ernst

chapter 7|24 pages

Social Control and the Legal Panoptic Paradigm

ByMalik Bozzo-Rey
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