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Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison /

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Counter 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. -- Publisher description.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 (Author)
Other Authors: Sheridan, Alan (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of 'Surveiller et punir'.
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
Edition:Second Vintage books edition.
Subjects:
Prisons.
Prisons > History.
Prison discipline.
Punishment.
Prisons > history
Prisons
Prisons > Discipline.
Peines.
Prisons > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Social Theory.
Prison discipline
Punishment
Geschichte
Strafvollzug
Straffen.
Gevangenissen.
Sociale aspecten.
Filosofische aspecten.
Tucht.
Punishment > History.
Fängelser.
Straff.
Disciplin (ordning)
Geschichte.
Strafvollzug.
History
Annotations (Provenance)
Insertions (Provenance)
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