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Discipline and Punish

The Birth of the Prison

By Michel Foucault

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| Hardcover | 9780394499420

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Book 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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Stir Crazy

Michel Foucault erupted onto the intellectual scene at the beginning of the Sixties with his Folie et déraison, an unconventional but still reasonably recognizable history of the Western experience of madness. He has become, in the years since, a kin ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

3 Reviews

Michel Foucault On 'Disciplinary Society',
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bm3dd0D4KA&feature=rela…
part 2:
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Ianyra said on Jun 11, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

333 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.2nd Vintage Books ed

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Brian Hamilton said on May 8, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

It's all about control. It begins my quest in philosophy. Totally stunned by the concept of "discursive power".

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張小張・Cons said on Dec 20, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback