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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679752552, Paperback)

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.

(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:43:58 -0400)

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