The change took place throughout Western civilization in less than a century. We want to train him we want to reeducate his "spirit." We no longer want to cause the criminal pain The condemned culprit's body is concealed rather than being placed on exhibition. The monotonous tumbling of locks and the shadow of the cell block have replaced the grand ceremonial of flesh and blood. All that came to a sudden end in the second half of the 18th century. Care was taken that no one should be unaware of it. From the stake to the scaffold, from the pillory to the gibbet, physical suffering was produced with elaborate theatricality as an example Bodies were branded, amputated, wrenched apart. This was translated by Leonard Mayhew.Ĭorporal punishment used to be carried out in a businesslike fashion. Michel Foucault, on the Role of Prisons By ROGER-POL DROITįollowing are excerpts from an interview with Michel Foucault, French philosopher, psychiatrist and historian, and author of "The Order of Things" and "Madness and Civilization." It first appeared in the Paris newspaper Le Monde, preceded by a commentary by the interviewer Roger-Pol Droit.
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