Michel Foucault
Essays

Throughout the course of his literary career, French philosopher Michael Foucault provided and considered several definitions for the term power, most of which were posited in view of the broader social implications of…

Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization is a complex work with so many different themes that it requires strenuous and concentrated reading to understand and retain Foucault's argument. The material then needs a review in order to reflect and critically engage with the reading. This kind of book is no light reading nor can it be done within a few hours. It needs a pen in hand or a luminescent marker to wade through the lines. The reader, too, needs to know that best results demand that he absorb this book in small bites in order to read, reflect, and reread before continuing with other sectors of the book. The following essay is a review of the book.

In Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault considers, describes and criticizes the prison system and its history. He describes in detail the ancient systems of public torture, which developed to become private executions,…

In Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, Michael Foucalt explores a number of concepts that were considered in approximately the final 15 years of his life. The manuscript consists of a number of the author's writings,…

In writing this critique of the modern era, Foucault challenges the conventional wisdom that the many forms of knowledge gained by humans during the 18th and 19th centuries have given people more freedom.

Michel Foucault used the term Panoptism (all-seeing) to describe the methods of control and surveillance used by industrial society to discipline and control the lower classes, whether in factories, schools, hospitals,…