傅柯专题：《规训与惩罚》 - 东海大学社会学系.doc

傅柯專題：《規訓與懲罰》 Seminar on Foucault：Discipline and Punish Department of Sociology, Tunghai University Fall, 2009 Tuesday 9:10-12:00 Instructor: 黃崇憲 Class: Tuesday 9:10-12:00 Phone:（04ext. 36313 E-mail: momo@.tw Office Hours/ Place: Wed.-Thu. 7:30am~8:30am／ （請 事先約定） Office: SS539 Course Description Foucault’s (1926-1984) work has had a tremendous impact in many different disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. And Foucault’s impact on sociology, then, simply cannot be overstated. Some see Foucault’s work as very much an extension of, and complement to, Weber’s analysis of social rationalization. Student’ of social control and deviance, particularly those influenced by labeling theory, cite Discipline and Punish as a revolution in the study of crime and criminality. Foucault’s institutional studies also have had implications for research on organizations. Foucault’s numerous books and hundreds of essays and interviews contribute significantly to such familiar, if disturbing, trends as the critique of the Subject as a foundation of epistemology and moral philosophy; the transformation of historical method toward a post-positivist method of genealogical research; the early development of what came to be called “queer theory” as a radical suspension of doubt as to the instability of analytical categories; as well as the rethinking of modern political and cultural sociology. This course will focus on arguably his most important book, Discipline and Punish to engage critically an in-depth reading of this influential and inspiring text. In Discipline and Punish Foucault begins with a startling juxtaposition between the gruesome public execution of Damiens the Regicide in 1757 and a blandly regimental prison timetable from 1837. How, Foucault asks, have we made the enormous transition from one form of punishment to the other in less than 80 years? Foucault’s provocative answer is that it is not t