Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based …
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France. Foucault argues that prison did not become the principal form of punishment just because of the humanitarian concerns of reformists. He traces the cultural shifts that led to the predominance of prison via the body and power. Prison is used by the "disciplines" – new technological powers that can also be found, according to Foucault, in places such as schools, hospitals, and military barracks.In a later work, Security, Territory, Population, Foucault admitted that he was somewhat overzealous in his argument that disciplinary power conditions society; he amended and developed his earlier ideas.
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Discipline and punish
333 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1991 by Penguin Books.
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Discipline and Punish
333 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1995
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- 978-0-679-75255-4Copied ISBN!
Discipline and punish
English language
Published Nov. 12, 1991
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Überwachen und Strafen
395 pages
German language
Published Nov. 8, 1976 by Suhrkamp.
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- 978-3-518-07449-7Copied ISBN!
Surveiller et punir
400 pages
French language
Published Nov. 12, 1993 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-072968-5Copied ISBN!
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Surveiller et punir
318 pages
French language
Published Feb. 20, 1975 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-029179-3Copied ISBN!
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
English language
Published Nov. 12, 1977
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- 978-0-394-49942-0Copied ISBN!
Overvågning og straf : fængslets fødsel
Danish language
Published Nov. 12, 2002
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- 978-87-90030-91-9Copied ISBN!
Überwachen und Strafen
German language
Published Nov. 12, 1994
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- 978-3-518-38771-9Copied ISBN!
Überwachen und Strafen
German language
Published Nov. 12, 1994 by Suhrkamp Verlag.
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- 978-3-518-27784-3Copied ISBN!
Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison
French language
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- 978-2-07-217660-9Copied ISBN!
Vigiar e Punir
Portuguese language
Published Nov. 12, 2008
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- 978-85-326-0508-5Copied ISBN!
Surveiller et punir
318 pages
French language
Published Nov. 8, 1975 by Gallimard.
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