On the basis: Ritzer, 2009: 344.
He does not make a theoretical insight into modernity ”from the position of trust in civic ideals”, but in the book Discipline and Punish(1976) he makes a turn that best reflects the triad ”hospital-madhouse-prison” in the geoepistemological sense. Through this metaphor, Foucault strongly articulated a new political and intellectual interest in the history of the state disciplinary system, which established a new methodological framework for defining modernity. Foucault builds this framework through two synchronous processes that lead to a ”disciplinary society” and different expressions of power. One is shaped through a new spatial expression of power11Establishment of treatment institutions (hospital and madhouse) and control of persons (prison)., while the other is characterized by the decline of the power of European monarchies. Because of this, Foucault’s work can be considered doubly important, for philosophy (power theory) and geography (spatial turn), with the former determining the origin and the latter the end of modernity.