Category Archives: Consistency

Foucault

Cruelty:  causing unnecessary and especially painful suffering.   This chapter suggests that the notion of cruelty has changed from the 1700s to now, and even from the 1700s to the 1800s.  It opens with a strikingly grotesque narrative from an … Continue reading

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