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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.

Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison

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A Paperback / softback by Michel Foucault

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    Publisher: Random House USA Inc
    Publication Date: 25/04/1995
    ISBN13: 9780679752554, 978-0679752554
    ISBN10: 0679752552

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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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