A PANORAMA OF PUNISHMENT IN MICHEL FOUCAULT

Abstract

This article seeks to address the concept of punishment, in the works of French philosopher Michel Foucault, from the transformations suffered such an idea, with repercussions throughout the West, especially from the eighteenth century, taking as its model the occurrence in French Society. For this we proceeded to the analysis of works relevant Thinker studied, especially those in which it addresses more directly the question now under consideration. The research focused on the initial work "Discipline and Punish - History of Violence in Prisons", written in 1975, especially its second part, "Punishment" in which Foucault, in the second chapter deals with the "Generalized Punishment".