In one work, this thinker notes that a "veritable discursive explosion" took off in the seventeenth century, leading him to question the idea that Victorians were "imperial prudes.
In one work, this thinker notes that a "veritable discursive explosion" took off in the seventeenth century, leading him to question the idea that Victorians were "imperial prudes." In another work, this thinker considered the treatment of Robert-Francois Damiens in discussing an "economy of power."  He claimed that a "great confinement" marked a shift in the treatment of the insane, and he also theorized that doctors divorce patients' bodies from their humanity using the "medical gaze." This author of The Birth of the Clinic and Madness and Civilization also piggybacked on Jeremy Bentham's design for a prison in which all inmates can be seen by a single guard. For 10 points, name this philosopher who discussed the panopticon in his Disciple and Punish.
In one work, this thinker notes that a "veritable discursive explosion" took off in the seventeenth century, leading him to question the idea that Victorians were "imperial prudes.
Michel Foucault