num_pages: 344
description: 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.
language: English
title: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
titlecomplete: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
genres: Anthropology, France, Academic, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Law, School, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 31559
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd