Bentham's Prison : A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary: A Study of the Panopticon PenitentiaryClarendon Press, 1993 M07 8 - 354 páginas At the end of the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham devised a scheme for a prison that he called the panopticon. It soon became an obsession. 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 plans 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 analysed by Foucault. Her entertainingly written study is full of drama: at times it is hilariously funny, at others it approaches tragedy. It illuminates a subject of immense historical importance and which is particularly relevant to modern controversies about penal policy. |
Contenido
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A View of the Hard Labour Bill and the Penitentiary | 42 |
John Howard and the Origins of the Panopticon | 62 |
The First Phase 17861793 | 95 |
Proposal and Contract I III | 111 |
Proposal and Contract II | 134 |
The Panopticon Bill of 1794 | 166 |
Hanging Wood and Tothill Fields | 192 |
IO A Picture of a Treasury | 218 |
The Final Failure | 254 |
Plans Visions and Utopia | 282 |
Conclusion | 309 |
Appendix History of the War between Jeremy | 324 |
Index | 337 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 303 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 234 - Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act, and the Bill of Rights.
Página 67 - Nor doth the confusion end here ; it reaches the very dregs of the people, who aspiring still to a degree beyond that which belongs to them, and not being able by the fruits of honest labour to support the state which they affect, they disdain the wages to which their industry would...
Página 100 - Morals reformed — health preserved — industry invigorated— instruction diffused— public burthens lightened- Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock - the gordian knot of the Poor-Laws not cut, but untied - all by a simple idea in architecture!
Página 254 - As he went through Cold-Bath Fields he saw A solitary cell; And the Devil was pleased, for it gave him a hint For improving his prisons in Hell. He saw a Turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade; 'Nimbly,' quoth he, 'do the fingers move If a man be but used to his trade.
Página 26 - It ought not to be forgotten, although it has been too frequently forgotten, that the delinquent is a member of the community, as well as any other individual — as well as the party injured himself; and that there is just as much reason for consulting his interest as that of any other. His welfare is proportionably the welfare of the community — his suffering the suffering of the community.
Página 40 - I have seen the tears run down the cheeks of that strong-minded man through vexation at the pressing importunity of creditors, and the insolence of official underlings, when, day after day, he was begging at the Treasury for what was indeed a mere matter of right. How indignant did I often feel when I saw him thus treated by men infinitely his inferiors! I could have extinguished them. He was quite soured by it; and I have no doubt that many of his harsh opinions afterwards were the fruit of this...
Página 156 - The policy of thus giving a bad name to industry, the parent of wealth and population, and setting it up as a scarecrow to frighten criminals with, is what I must confess I cannot enter into the spirit of. I can see no use in making it either odious or infamous.
Página 330 - Metropolis, explaining the various crimes and misdemeanours which at present are felt as a Pressure upon the Community; and suggesting remedies for their prevention, By a Magistrate (London, 1796).
Referencias a este libro
Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History Stuart Elden Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
At Work in the Iron Cage: The Prison as Gendered Organization Dana M. Britton Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |