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Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison (2nd Vintage Books ed.)

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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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Product Details
Penguin
0307819299 / 9780307819291
eBook (EPUB)
365.643
18/04/2012
England
English
352 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. This translation originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1973; London: Allen Lane, 1977 Description based on print version record.