Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translation of 'Surveiller et punir'. |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
1995.
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| Edition: | Second Vintage books edition. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | 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. "Barely two hundred and fifty years ago a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. The groundbreaking book by the most influential philosopher since Sartre compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as he examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, Michel Foucault suggests that punishment has shifted its locus from the prisoner's body to his soul--and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity."--from back cover |
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| Item Description: | Translation Copyright ©1977 by Alan Sheridan. "Originally published in France as Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la prison by Editions Gallimard, Paris. Copyright ©1975 by Editions Gallimard". -- Title page verso "English translation originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books, Ltd". -- Title page verso "First American edition published by Pantheon Books in January 1978". -- Title page verso Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1977. The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy [A14853490449] is part of the Ray Nayler Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 333 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-333). |
| ISBN: | 0679752552 9780679752554 |