Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
352 pages
|Published: 28 Oct 1975
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This edition
ISBN: 9780679752554
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Description
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 prisoner’s body to his soul.