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Discipline and Punish
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Discipline and Punish
by:
Michel Foucault
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The Body of the Condemned
The Spectacle of the Scaffold
Generalized Punishment
The Gentle Art of Punishment
Docile Bodies
The Means of Correct Training
Panopticism
Complete and Austere Institutions
Illegalities and Delinquency
The Carceral
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Full Book Quiz
1. When was Michel Foucault born?
1975
1935
1926
1929
2. From which author does Foucault derive the concept of Genealogy?
Nietzsche
Heidegger
Canguilhem
Beccaria
3. What is the subtitle of
Discipline and Punish
?
The growth of the carceral system
Penality in the classical period
The birth of the prison
Surveillance and Observation
4. With which two images does Foucault begin this book?
A prison and a guillotine
A prisoner and a delinquent
A genealogy and the carceral system
A public execution and a timetable
5. When does Foucault believe that public executions disappeared by?
1830–48
1835–1850
1900–1950
1930–1948
6. What does modern penality aim to affect?
The body of the prisoner
The future of the prisoner
The soul of the prisoner
The essence of the prisoner
7. Which of the following are "human sciences"?
Sociology, criminology and psychiatry
Botany, hydrology and architecture
Campanology, orthography and paleontology
Scientology, Geology and Theosophy
8. With what process is torture associated?
The juridical investigation
The judicial investigation
The philosophical investigation
The official investigation
9. What adjective best describes the pre-modern criminal investigation?
Barbarous
Unjust
Secret
Suspicious
10. Which two aspects of the subject's life does discipline aim to regulate?
Time and space
The mind and the soul
Life and death
Future and past
11. Who is at the head of the system of penality in which public execution is an accepted punishment?
The executioner
The King
The Pope
The prison
12. What symbolic role does the executioner perform?
The King's champion
The servant of God
The link between power and knowledge
The embodiment of discipline
13. Who is the main reformer that Foucault analyzes?
Danton
Beccaria
Shaw
Boethius
14. What does Foucault refer to as the aspect of the crime that is "turned back upon itself" in order to reveal the crime's truth?
Discipline
Alacrity
Atrocity
Dogma
15. What does the eighteenth century represent, amongst other things?
The beginning of public execution as a penalty
The rise of an illegality of rights
The invention of property rights
A crisis of popular illegality
16. What were penal reformers attempting to do, according to Foucault?
To find a way of punishing better
To find a way of punishing less
To disentangle the penalty from the crime
To protect prisoners from cruelty
17. Where does Foucault believe the disciplines originated?
In prison
In courtrooms
In monasteries
In supermarkets
18. What does Foucault give as an example of discipline operating in the seventeenth century?
The body of the soldier
The royal gardens at Versailles
The prison workshop
The church
19. What are the two kinds of time that Foucault discusses in his account of discipline?
Past and present
Calculated and observed
Linear and evolutive
Disciplined and punished
20. Which two procedures are combined in the process of examination?
Hierarchical observation and normalizing judgment
Calculated economy and prescribed behavior
Political discrepancy and severe punishment
Seriation and categorization
21. Which place is contrasted with the panopticon in section seven?
The scaffold
The prison
The plague town
The king's throne
22. What is the category created by the carceral system?
The prisoner
The convict
The prison warder
The delinquent
23. What was the chief benefit of "creating" delinquency?
It allowed illegality to be confined to a small group and supervised
It provided a pool of cheap labor for industrial expansion
It ended the need for public executions
It widened the field of knowledge of the human sciences
24. What, according to Foucault, replaces the theater of punishment?
The human sciences
Secret penality
The punishment as spectacle
The carceral city
25. When does Foucault claim that the carceral system was completed?
January 22, 1840
December 25, 1900
November 13, 1860
April 17, 1833
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