Discipline and Punish

The Birth of the Prison

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by Michel Foucault,

Translated by Alan Sheridan

Random House, Inc

Due/Published May 1995, 333 pages, paper

ISBN 0679752552

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.