From the history of prison to the theory of punitive reason. Foucault responds to French penitentiary historian
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The article analyses the main criticisms that Michel Foucault's best-known work, Discipline and Punish, received from the French historiographical profession. It also attempts to highlight Foucault's own response by turning prison into an object of epistemological and historiographical problematization. Finally, it examines the political questions raised by this debate. Nevertheless, it must be acknowledged that despite its polemic, or perhaps because of it, the work functioned as an accelerator for the study of prison and other forms of punishment.
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