Michel Foucault (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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Michel Foucault was a twentieth century French philosopher who studied the concept of “principles of exclusion.” The career of this professor at the University of Paris-Vincennes and the College de France expressed two broad themes. The first, which was represented in his 1961 book Madness and Civilization, focused on mental illness and society’s response through the institution of the insane asylum.
Later, Foucault began to expand the concept of exclusion to include the penal system and prisons, and in 1975 he published Discipline and...
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