Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
$32.51
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1989
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679752554 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679752552 |
| Author: | Michel Foucault |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1989 |
| Weight: | 255g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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About The Author
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lectured in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophie at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France’s most prestigious institution, the College de France.
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