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  • Published: 1 October 1989
  • ISBN: 9780679752554
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $36.99

Discipline and Punish

The Birth of the Prison




Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

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.

  • Published: 1 October 1989
  • ISBN: 9780679752554
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $36.99

About the author

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucalt (1926-1984) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in postwar France. Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.

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