Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Author(s)Michel Foucault
PublisherVintage Books
ISBN / ASIN0679752552
ISBN-139780679752554
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank1,736
CategoryPhilosophy
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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.
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