About the Author. List of Plates. The body of the condemned. The spectacle of the scaffold. Generalized punishment. The gentle way in punishment.
Docile bodies. The art of distributions. The control of activity. The organization of geneses. The composition of forces. The means of correct training. Hierarchical observation. Normalizing judgement. The examination. Complete and austere institutions. Illegalities and delinquency. The carceral. Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in Bentham, Harou-Romain, Andry, Any closer translation of the French title of this book, Surveiller et punir , has proved unsatisfactory on various counts.
Such a nuance is denied us in English. By extension the word can also refer to any prolonged torture, mental as well as physical. References to other works are usually given not in footnotes but in an abbreviated form in the text itself. Full references are to be found in the Bibliography.
Jesus, help me! Then the executioner, his sleeves rolled up, took the steel pincers, which had been especially made for the occasion, and which were about a foot and a half long, and pulled first at the calf of the right leg, then at the thigh, and from there at the two fleshy parts of the right arm; then at the breasts. Though a strong, sturdy fellow, this executioner found it so difficult to tear away the pieces of flesh that he set about the same spot two or three times, twisting the pincers as he did so, and what he took away formed at each part a wound about the size of a six-pound crown piece.
Pardon, Lord. The cords had been tied so tightly by the men who pulled the ends that they caused him indescribable pain. Monsieur le Breton went up to him again and asked him if he had anything to say; he said no. After a quarter of an hour, the same ceremony was repeated and finally, after several attempts, the direction of the horses had to be changed, thus: those at the arms were made to pull towards the head, those at the thighs towards the arms, which broke the arms at the joints.
