Solitary confinement : social death and its afterlives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Guenther, Lisa, 1971-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Solitary confinement > United States > History. Solitary confinement > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A Critical Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement
I. The Early U.S. Penitentiary System: 1. An Experiment in Living Death; 2. Person, World, and Other: A Husserlian Critique of Solitary Confinement; 3. The Racialization of Criminality and the Criminalization of Race: From the Plantation to the Prison Farm
II. The Modern Penitentiary: 4. From Thought Reform to Behavior Modification; 5. Living Relationality: Merleau-Ponty's Critical Phenomenological Account of Behavior; 6. Beyond Dehumanization: A Posthumanist Critique of Intensive Confinement
III. Supermax Prisons: 7. Supermax Confinement and the Exhaustion of Space; 8. Dead Time: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Temporality of Supermax Confinement; 9. From Accountability to Responsibility: A Levinasian Critique of Supermax Rhetoric
Conclusion.