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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault · 1975 · 354 pages
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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Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
“Michel “Faux-coo” wrote intellectual histories of subjects like psychiatry, medicine, and criminal justice in which he argued that we should not understand these histories as straightforward progressions toward liberty and scientific truth but rather as mere shifts in the way that power orders our institutions and populations.”
