Did Michel Foucault really say 'The prison, as a principle of punishment, is a relatively recent invention.'?

Michel Foucault:

The prison, as a principle of punishment, is a relatively recent invention.

— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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"Madness is the absence of an oeuvre."

"The institution of the family is a micro-power."

"The role of the intellectual is not to tell others what they should do."

"The prison is the only place where the law can be applied in its pure form, without any distortion."

"The analysis of power relations is not about condemning power, but about understanding its mechanisms."

Discipline and Punish

Date: 1975

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