Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Panopticon WritingsCondition: NewAuthor: Jeremy BenthamContributor: Miran Bozovic (Edited by)Format: PaperbackISBN-10: 1844676668EAN: 9781844676668ISBN: 9781844676668Publisher: Verso BooksGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Date: 01/10/2011Description: The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham's own theory of fictions, according to which non-existent fictitious entities can have all too real effects. There is probably no building that has stirred more philosophical controversy than Bentham's Panopticon. The Panopticon is not merely, as Foucault thought, "a cruel, ingenious cage", in which subjects collaborate in their own subjection, but much more-constructing the Panopticon produces not only a prison, but also a god within it. The Panopticon is a machine which on assembly is already inhabited by a ghost. It is through the Panopticon and the closely related theory of fictions that Bentham has made his greatest impact on modern thought; above all, on the theory of power. The Panopticon writings are frequently cited, rarely read. This edition contains the complete "Panopticon Letters", together with selections from "Panopticon Postscript I" and "Fragment on Ontology", Bentham's fullest account of fictions. A comprehensive introduction by Miran Bozovic explores the place of Panopticon in contemporary theoretical debate.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 132mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 191gBook Series: Radical Thinkers Set 05Release Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Panopticon Writings
Title: The Panopticon Writings
Contributor: Miran Bozovic (Edited by)
ISBN-10: 1844676668
EAN: 9781844676668
ISBN: 9781844676668
Release Date: 01/10/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Radical Thinkers Set 05
Edition: 2
Book Title: Panopticon Writings
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Security Design, History & Theory, Penology
Publication Year: 2011
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Architecture, Social Science
Item Weight: 6.7 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Jeremy. Bentham
Book Series: Radical Thinkers Ser.
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
