This thinker used the image of the Ship of Fools to contrast the ambivalent acceptance of the insane during the Renaissance with how today's deviants occupy the role of medieval lepers. Another of his works opens with a discussion of Las Meninas and seeks to analyze the origin of the human sciences. This author of The Order
This thinker used the image of the Ship of Fools to contrast the ambivalent acceptance of the insane during the Renaissance with how today's deviants occupy the role of medieval lepers. Another of his works opens with a discussion of Las Meninas and seeks to analyze the origin of the human sciences. This author of The Order of Things introduced the concept of "biopower" in The History of Sexuality. In another work, he traced the development of prison systems throughout history and offered Bentham's Panopticon as the ideal modern prison. For 10 points, name this French social philosopher who wrote Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish.
This thinker used the image of the Ship of Fools to contrast the ambivalent acceptance of the insane during the Renaissance with how today's deviants occupy the role of medieval lepers.
Michel Foucault