Rent: Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By Michel Foucault

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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.

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ISBN 10: 0679752552
ISBN 13: 9780679752554
352 pages.
First Published:1/12/1979
List Price:14.95
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, All Categories, Crime & Criminals, Criminology, Philosophy, Modern, Social Sciences, Sociology

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