-Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish Thought For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of thought as distinct both from the history of ideas (by which I mean the analysis of systems of representation) and from the history of mentalities (by which I mean the analysis of attitudes and types of action sch Michel Foucault — The soul is the prison of the body. Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form. Quotes from Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Quotations by Michel Foucault, French Historian, Born October 15, 1926. (See also Discipline and Punish p. 26) 328 quotes from Michel Foucault: 'Thought is no longer theoretical. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. More Michel Foucault Quotes [L]'âme, prison du corps. Share with your friends. Power is something exercised, put into action, in relationships – an active relation rather than a possession or static state of affairs. — Michel Foucault, book Discipline and Punish Discipline and Punish (1977), Context: This, then, is how one must imagine the punitive city. DISCIPLINE 3. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.” ― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. — Michel Foucault, book Discipline and Punish Discipline and Punish (1977), Context: This, then, is how one must imagine the punitive city. Read Michel Foucault biography. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. However, later works, such as “Discipline and Punish”, “Madness and Civilization” and “History of Sexuality” were also very impressive. Explanation of the famous quotes in Discipline and Punish, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues. 1926 - 1984. Steven Pinker would say because of the better angels of our nature. This quotation represents Foucault's project in a nutshell. French philosopher and historian of ideas. Latest quotes from interviews "Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. It is a normalizing gaze, a surveillance that makes it possible to qualify, to classify and to punish. One of Michel Foucault’s quotes about knowledge and power He begins with a 1775 execution to show the progression from torture/execution to imprisonment. Discipline and Punish aims to chart the transformation from a situation where atrocious sentences were passed by a judge, and carried out in public, to one where the experts of the human sciences judge everyone in society according the norm established by their discipline.