Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679752554
- Reading Time
- ~6h 10min
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison is a book by Michel Foucault. It has 352 pages.
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Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner’s body to his soul.
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Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the...
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison was written by Michel Foucault.