Doffdog থেকে Schwaigern, Germany
এটি খুব ভাল এবং আকর্ষণীয় ছিল তবে বইটি পাশাপাশি যাওয়ার সাথে প্রচুর তথ্য পুনরাবৃত্তি হতে শুরু করে। একটি ভাল ভূমিকা, তবে আমি নিশ্চিত যে এই বিষয়ে সেখানে আরও গভীরতার কাজ করতে হবে।
the book is most definitely "disturbing". but i love it. the point of view of the author seems to be rather keeping with the Reconstructionist mindset, and he presents his information in a clear and conversational manner.. he is very easy to follow and his research is exhaustive... he deconstructs many blindly-swallowed "facts" about rabbinical Judaism and it takes a strong gut to make your way through the book if you are of a more Orthodox/traditional persuasion, but i recommend sticking it out. its worth every grey hair to consider his take on things and realise for yourself that you are making your own decisions and not just blindly (and ignorantly) following what might have been passed down to you after several centuries of hearsay...
Power relationships are at the basis of our existence and Foucault aptly traces the history of these relationships from past to near-present. These controlling power relationships used to focus on physicality (control of the body), but over time the penal system began to focus on control over the soul. Foucault, with his usual intellectual acumen, produces one of the great works on the system of punishment. Along with Scarry's "The Body in Pain," Foucault's work is in the upper echelon of texts about the confluence between power, psychology, and society.