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Happiness in Action — Harvard University Press
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In Discipline and Punish, Foucault argued that this more civilised approach to regulating prisoners’ behaviour is perhaps a worse evil than the gruesome public executions that preceded it. For Foucault, this modern, precise, systematic approach has an even more devastating effect, crushing any vestiges of dignity, independence, or individuality.
... See moreWarren Ward • Lovers of Philosophy: How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought
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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that
... See moreGeorge Orwell • 1984
The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought)
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the physical confrontation between the sovereign and the condemned man must end; this hand-to-hand fight between the vengeance of the prince and the contained anger of the people, through the mediation of the victim and the executioner, must be concluded.
Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan (Translator) • Discipline and Punish
Aportes lacanianos a una filosofía política emancipadora (Spanish Edition)
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