Discourses in School Readiness
Journal: Philosophy of education
Year: 2024

The Birth of the Prison opens with a ghastly description of the public torture and execution of "Damiens the regicide," an account that continues in agonizing detail for three pages before the narrative fast-forwards eighty years, to a prison schedule that includes time for exercise, recreation, education, and listening to "passage[s] from some instructive or uplifting work." 1 Foucault uses these disparate examples and the time that separates them to illustrate how "a new theory of law and crim