Ebook: Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison
Author: Michel Foucault Alan Sheridan
- Tags: Prisons. Prison discipline. Punishment. Social Science. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: New York
- Language: English, French
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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 to his soul.
Abstract: 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