Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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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.
  • ISBN10 0679752552
  • ISBN13 9780679752554
  • Publish Date 25 April 1995
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Vintage