by Michel Foucault · Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432303326
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«Vigilar y castigar: Nacimiento de la prisión» is a philosophy essay by Michel Foucault, published by Siglo XXI de España Editores in paperback.
Foucault explores how the punishment of bodies gave way, between the 16th and 19th centuries, to confinement and surveillance techniques to correct the individual. He argues that the modern prison is not just a humanitarian advance but a new technology of power linked to institutions such as the school, the army and the hospital.
First Spanish edition, translated from the French by Aurelio Garzón del Camino, in the Nueva criminología y derecho collection.
Reference work for those studying political philosophy, criminal law and the history of institutions.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
