Original publication date
1975
Pages
ix; 333
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
New York: Vintage Books, c1975, c1977, 1978; Second Vintage Books Edition, May 1995; 20th printing
Physical description
ix, 333 p.; 20.25 cm
ISBN
0679752552 / 9780679752554
Language
Original language
French
Description
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.