Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison

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Title:

Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison

Author:

Foucault, Michel.

ISBN:

9780679752554

Personal Author:

Foucault, Michel.

Uniform Title:

Surveiller et punir. English.

Edition:

2nd Vintage Books ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Vintage Books, 1995.

Physical Description:

333 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1977.

Subject Term:

Prisons.

Prison discipline.

Punishment.

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
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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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