有关宗教的书，没事的时候翻翻还行。

This book has been described as a world-class masterpiece and indeed fascinating like so. Once I open this book, I just can’t put it down. Thus I recommend this book for all of you, my dear friends. This book has been described as a masterpiece, and for good reason. Through this "genealogy" of history, Foucault shows us how modern society has become penal and coercive in nature; and perhaps more importantly, that all us now live in the midst of an abstract, authoritative public "gaze." Discipline and Punish is still relevant for today, even though the Panopticon has vanished. I think this book is brilliant and disturbing. It is not always easy to read, but then, what book worth reading is? Foucault is given to dramatic images, and he does little to mitigate the impact of these images on the reader. Perhaps he is really trying to increase this impact. Since he is attempting to counter the powers of normalization, he may need all of the momentum he can get. 本书旨在论述关于现代灵魂与一种新的审判权力之间相互关系的历史，论述现行的科学一法律综合体的系谱。在这种综合体中。惩罚权力获得了自身的基础、证明和规则。扩大了自己的效应，并且用这种综合体掩饰自己超常的独特性。本书所考察的惩罚权力的历史包括三个阶段：中世纪末和旧制度时期作为王权武器的酷刑；18世纪末，包括法国大革命时期人道主义的“再现”式惩罚；19世纪开始的、使用现代规训技术的监狱和普遍化的监视。书中提到的“古典时期，不是指古希腊罗马时期的古典古代，而是指近代绝对君主制和法国大革命时期，大体上与西方文学史上所说的古典主义文学时期一致。本书中这一术语的用法与福柯其他著作中的用法也是一致的。关于古典时期的惩罚权力，书中概括为“表象的、戏剧性的、能指的、公开的、集体的方式”。这里的表象一词在书中有的场合根据上下文译为“观念”或“再现”。表象或再现是福柯用以描述古典时期“权力一知识”综合体的一个重要术语。这种观点是与他在1966年发表的《词与物》（英译版《事物的秩序》）一脉相承的。在《词与物》中，福柯考察了近代西方的“知识型的替嬗。其中，他认为17—18世纪古典时期知识型的特点是，词并不直接表示物，而是一种符号，而符号只是对其他符号的“再现”。词组成了享有特权的符号系统。人们用词的秩序来再现物的秩序。

不知道该怎么评价，不说了

很好

翻译的问题？读起来不顺畅。

还不错