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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault

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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison is a 1975 book by Michel Foucault. Working from historical documents from France, it analyses the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes in the penal systems of Western countries in the modern age. Foucault traces how penal institutions and the power to punish became part of everyday life.

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions.

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First published
1975
Reading time
About 9 hours
Pages
374
Language
English
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