Firstly, Happy New Year to One and All.
Secondly:
If we can say that Foucault’s analysis in "Discipline and Punish" relates not, or not exclusively, to the birth of the bricks and mortar we call prison, but rather to a modern experience in which ‘the soul is the prison of the body’ (DP: 30); then we can say, with regard to the analysis he undertakes in "Madness and Civilization," that what he is attempting to account for is not simply the “experience of madness,” nor 'The Birth of the Asylum,' but rather the historical a priori for the constitution of a field of possible experience in which "reason is the asylum (seizure [1]) of the mind (i.e. soul)?
[1] Latin /asylum/, from Greek /asylon/, from /a-/ and /sylon/, /syle/ right of seizure.
Regards - Kevin.
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Secondly:
If we can say that Foucault’s analysis in "Discipline and Punish" relates not, or not exclusively, to the birth of the bricks and mortar we call prison, but rather to a modern experience in which ‘the soul is the prison of the body’ (DP: 30); then we can say, with regard to the analysis he undertakes in "Madness and Civilization," that what he is attempting to account for is not simply the “experience of madness,” nor 'The Birth of the Asylum,' but rather the historical a priori for the constitution of a field of possible experience in which "reason is the asylum (seizure [1]) of the mind (i.e. soul)?
[1] Latin /asylum/, from Greek /asylon/, from /a-/ and /sylon/, /syle/ right of seizure.
Regards - Kevin.
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Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/2004