The Panopticon Writings by Miran Božovič, Jeremy Bentham

The Panopticon Writings

Miran Božovič, Jeremy Bentham

158 pages first pub 1791 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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A definitive collection of Bentham’s work on the model prison, key to Foucault’s theory of power.The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing...

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