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Freedom According to Michel Foucault

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

Capital Punishment and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

that punishment is really nothing more than the stronger, and perhaps more popular, individual asserting his power and rights over...

Contemporary Organization and Michel Foucault's Enhanced Panopticon Model

II. The Panopticon The Panopticon is an interesting model that had been created to foster the ideal setting for prison life. It ...

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

with a rational sense of understanding crime and punishment this does not appear to be punishment as much as it appears to be an a...

Symbolic Power, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault

he has been given far too much credit for the heroism of hundreds of other New Yorkers. Bourdieu and Symbolic Power According ...

Michel Foucault, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx on Political Theory

similar: to attain virtue and the happiness which comes from a sense of right living, but such an outcome was seen as more worthy ...

'Eye of Power' by Michel Foucault

In seven pages Michel Foucault addresses knowledge and power and the relationship that exists between them in his essay entitled '...

Jeremy Bentham's 'Panopticon,' Michel Foucault, and Power

intention, Michel Foucault in "Discipline and Punish" (DP) has pointed out that in actual application, the Panopticon became more ...

Feminism and Michel Foucault

In ten pages this paper discusses how Michel Foucault is largely responsible for postmodern and poststructural concepts of women w...

Michel Foucault on Knowledge, Power, and Video Art

In six pages this paper examines how human interaction study can apply Michel Foucault's philosophies of knowledge and power as il...

Contemporary Prisons and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...

Nature of Art and the Perceptions of Michel Foucault

viewpoint dictated, both in terms of the structure of the work - angle, perspective, distance and so on - and the content. From a ...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

In three pages this paper focuses upon the latter portion of Foucault's revolutionary text in an analysis of its contents. There ...

Social Control and the Concepts of Michel Foucault

seems to be the primary tool, at least figuratively. It is used in the well known Panopticon paradigm as well. The Panopticon is ...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Comparative Theoretical Analysis of Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, and Max Weber

while perhaps more obvious than it actually seems - illustrates how gaining knowledge in a particular area (such as in medicine or...

Religion and Culture/Michel Foucault

This essay offers an overview of Religion and Culture by Michel Foucault, edited by Jeremy Carette. While the writer cites from Ca...

Society and Sexual Repression According to Foucault

In five pages this paper examines sexuality and the repression that is caused by sexual obsession according to social theorist Mic...

Why Is Power Productive For Foucault?

who went before, without any question as to why things are accomplished in any certain order, the time for the Enlightenment symbo...

Foucault and Orwell

atmosphere of oppression and dread that is remarkable in literature. But 1984 seems to go beyond the panopticon, which seems almos...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the Theories of Michel Foucault

composed of those two forms from which they distantly derive." While this is only one small part of Foucaults work, it is clearl...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

'Newness' Concept of Salman Rushdie Applied to Foucault and Winterson

In five pages this report applies Rushdie's newness concept to gender stereotypes with an examination of Michel Foucault's The His...

Michael Foucault vs. Frantz Fanon on Minorities

French writers Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon are seminal philosophers in the empowerment of minority populations. This research...

Knowledge and Sexuality According to German and French Critical Theory

In twelve pages Michel Foucault's philosophies are featured in a discussion of critical theory pertaining to the French and German...

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Panopticon Model and Public Schools' Essay by John Devine

proposed prison design by eighteenth-century reformer Jeremy Bentham but what distinguished this structure had been an architectur...

Identity Construct, Gender, and Sexuality

clearly defined socio-cultural parameters. Gauntlett (2002) states that in those societies where modernity is well developed...

Calvinism Genesis of Capitalism

The entitled topic represents one part of this paper, which discusses four philosophers. Weber proved his point that Calvinism pla...