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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault into English and German

Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault into English and German

Pawelski, Melissa

Hardcover

Series: Research Monographs in French Studies, Book 71

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 1839542268
ISBN13: 9781839542268
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Nov 10 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) form a multilingual network of ideas. It is for this reason that Foucault's ideas are difficult to translate. Yet in Anglophone debates, the task of translation has not been critically discussed. Focussing on the challenges of translating concepts of the human body (corps), power (pouvoir), violence, and surveillance in the French language, these key concepts have been informed by German-language philosophy which complicates translating them back into German and English. In this trilingual study of the English and German translations of one of Foucault's most famous works, Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison (1975), Melissa Pawelski proposes for the first time a careful investigation into the difficulties of translating Foucauldian ideas, showing why and how the English and German translations differ from the original and from one another.

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