Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison 2nd (second) Edition by Michel Foucault published by Vintage (1995)

Foucault; M. and Sheridan, A. (trans)

ISBN 10: 0679752552 / ISBN 13: 9780679752554

Published by Vintage, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison 2nd (second) Edition by Michel Foucault published by Vintage (1995)
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679752552
• ISBN 13: 9780679752554
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 300 grams

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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.

About the Author

Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.