Discipline and Punish

The Birth of the Prison

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$19.00 US
Knopf | Vintage
24 per carton
On sale Apr 25, 1995 | 978-0-679-75255-4
Sales rights: US, Canada, Open Mkt
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.

In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker 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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A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.

In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker 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.