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In dieser bewährten Verlagsreihe (zuletzt G. Strohmaier: "Avicenna", ID 5/00) eine Neuauflage der Werkbiografie des französischen Philosophen und Vordenkers der Postmoderne Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Im Unterschied zur Erstveröffentlichung (ID 26/88) ist ein kurzes Kapitel über Foucaults Wirkung als politischer Philosoph hinzugefügt, einige Stellen sind überarbeitet; die Bibliographie ist aktualisiert. - Neben der Junius-Einführung von H. Fink-Eitel (ID 50/89) als Ersatz für die (hoffentlich) zerlesene Erstausgabe. (3) (LK/MA: Altmeyer)

(Originally published in Telos, 1974, 19, spring, 154-161.) Reactions to a 1972 visit to the Attica (NY) prison are recounted. Contrary to descriptions of prisons as machines of incarceration capable of producing virtuous men, it is argued that prisons are "mechanisms of circular elimination." Society eliminates by sending to prison people who prison breaks up, crushes, & physically eliminates, after which the prison frees them, sending them back to society. The state in which they come out insures that society will eliminate them once again, sending them back to prison. Commenting on training intended to adapt prisoners to prison life, it is contended that the only way for prisoners to escape from the system of training is by collective action, political organization, & rebellion. US prisons are much more conducive to political action than those in Europe. US prisons assume a role as a place of punishment & also as a concentration camp, where the penal system serves as an instrument & as a pretext for the practice of radical concentration. The US & French prison systems are compared. S. Millett

Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. ""Michel Foucault: Key Concepts"" explores Foucault's central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning and uses across Foucault's work, highlighting its conne