规训:现代社会的权力技术与策略——解读福柯的《规训与惩罚》

后现代思想大师福柯的名著《规训与惩罚》,通过对18世纪到19世纪西方社会对犯罪的惩罚形式的变化轨迹的历史分析,揭示了现代社会赖以组织与存在的政治技术——“规训”的强大而微妙的作用,并揭示出西方现代社会的监狱式组织结构,深刻地反思了现代理性带来的人类生存困境,从而解构了启蒙主义所塑造的现代性神话。福柯对知识、真理与权力的共谋与同构关系的揭示,更是道出了现代知识生产机制的隐秘真相。他的微观权力理论则是对马克思的阶级、经济权力理论的补充和修正,也是对整体革命理论、二元对立思维的质疑。

Discipline: The Art and Strategy of Power in Modern Society

Discipline and Punish:The Birth of the Prisonment by Michel Foucault,the great master of postmodernism,studies how prisons developed and exposes the powerful and delicate function of "discipline" in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the West.Foucault suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.His systems of microphysics of power not only corrected and supplemented Marxist perspectives on political economy and history(class struggle) but also challenged the integral revolutionary theory and dualism.