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Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 25, 1995
Reading lane: Social Theory
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.
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- prison, power, and social order
- sharp conceptual reframing
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- dense but lucid argument
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Book Details
- Authors
- Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- April 25, 1995
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Social Theory · French Literary Criticism
- Reading lane
- Social Theory
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Social Philosophy
Criminology
Social Theory
About This Book
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker 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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