Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault

Other authorsAlan Sheridan (Translator)
Paperback, 1995

Original publication date

1975

Pages

ix; 333

Status

Available

Call number

HV8666.F6813 1978

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.

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