Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
of Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan (Translator)
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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 prisonerâs body to his soul.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 352 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date April 25th 1995
- First Publication 10/28/75
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679752554
- Edition Not informed
- Category Religion & Spirituality
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