For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

"Foucault's great confinement"

by Porter, Roy (1990)

Abstract

… the contrast with nineteenth-century practice is stark indeed).'° In later studies, especially La volonte de savoir (1976), Foucault detached himself from those who interpret the disciplines of modernity (eg sexual restraint) as responses to the ' work ethic ' supposedly demanded by …

Keywords

Foucault, Madness, Absolutism, Work Ethic, Surveillance, Workhouses, History

Themes

On Foucault, Foucault

Links to Reference

Citation

Share


How to contribute.