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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1995
ISBN
0679752552, 9780679752554
LCC
HV8666 .F6813 1995
Open Library ID
OL908934M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34401093 bytes)
Edition
2nd Edition
Pages
178\178
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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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