Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault with Alan Sheridan (Translator)

352 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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