LY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Michel Foucault, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte
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Ly101 january 23: incarceration and the disciplinary society. This speech covers a range of issues, but approximately half way down is a very brief section defending the for(cid:373)er co(cid:374)ser(cid:448)ati(cid:448)e go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t"s controversial crime legislation that increased prison sentences for a number of offenses. Influenced by 19th century fascination with natural sciences. Rested on idea of enlightenment ideas of progress and improvement. Empiricism: theory corresponds to immediately observable facts: critique of natural law. And natural right: positivists: study social issues like we do science. Objective (not subjective) knowledge > reason over emotions. Only know what we can immediately observe. Observation, testing, eventually we can perfect social institutions, like law. Preached progressive, unilinear idea of human development: bentham: positivist utilitarianism, durkheim: society like a living organism, do(cid:374)"t dig deeper i(cid:374)to u(cid:374)derlyi(cid:374)g stru(cid:272)tures a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)ts that (cid:373)ay shape the (cid:862)fa(cid:272)ts(cid:863, bentham and the modern prison. Enforcing capitalist relations of inequality and exploitation.
