Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault

Published April 25th 1995 by Vintage (first published February 20th 1975)

Category: Biography

Pages: 352 pages

ISBN: 9780679752554

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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 prisonerÕs body to his soul.