GRGR (15): Good & Evil: Utilitarianism

[Seb Thirlway]

From: Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>

>Terrance schrieb:
[snip]>

>
> "The jailer in his central lodge would be able to see into
> each of the prisoner's cells,  but screens and lighting
> would be so arranged that he himself could not be seen by
> them...so they would all have the impression of an invisible
> omnipresence."

>  A still instructive analysis of Bentham's Panopticon and its
socio-historical
>  significance can be found in chapter III. 3. of Michel
Foucault's "Surveiller
>  et punir. La naissance de la prison" [1975].


 thanks!  must have been a reference to that I saw somewhere.
More reading...

seb