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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
โ Scribed by Foucault, Michel
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 461 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780679724698
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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.;pt. 1. Torture -- The body of the condemned -- The spectacle of the scaffold -- pt. 2. Punishment -- Generalized punishment -- The gentle way in punishment -- pt. 3. Discipline -- Docile bodies : the art of distributions -- The control of activity -- The organization of geneses -- The composition of forces -- The means of correct training : hierarchical observation -- Normalizing judgement -- The examination -- Panopticism -- pt. 4. Prison -- Complete and austere institutions -- Illegalities and delinquency -- The carceral.
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