Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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.

Author: Michel Foucault
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/25/1995
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780679752554
2nd Edition