Discipline and punish
Subtitle: the birth of the prison
By: Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by Alan Sheridan.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Prisons.; Prison discipline.; Punishment.
Work titles: Surveiller et punir.
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.
Notes: Translation of: Surveiller et punir.