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date: 16 June 2025

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Source:
A Dictionary of Critical Theory
Author(s):

Ian Buchanan

Michel *Foucault's concept to describe a broad scale movement he detected in European history away from spectacular and grotesque forms of punishment towards more subtle modes of coercion that take the individual body as their target. Commencing in the mid to late 18th century, at the start of the era that Foucault would later characterize as the age of ... ...

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