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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Paperback – April 25, 1995

by Michel Foucault (Author), Alan Sheridan (Translator)

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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.

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Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Books (April 25, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 333 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679752552
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679752554
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.87 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 5.43 x 0.3 inches

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One of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France, Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French historian and philosopher associated with the structuralist and poststructuralist movements. He is often considered the most influential social theorist of the second half of the twentieth century, not only in philosophy but in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Among his most notable books are Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality.
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Alan Sheridan (1934 - 2015) was the author of Andrée Gide: A Life in the Present. He translated works by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jean Lacouture and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
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Scott

The history of how prison happened

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2024

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The French did not always have prisons, so where did they come from, and what is their purpose?

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Great book; newsprint quality

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As a school administrator, Foucault’s book brings great insight in discipline at school, and how we must reevaluate how we handle students, so we do not perpetuate the same practices of two centuries ago.
The paper back has newsprint quality pages with small text. I am nearsighted, so it is fine for me.

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It’s a curious fact, but if you want to understand some of today’s most controversial issues, you have to read the works of a French philosopher who died in 1984.

That philosopher is of course Michel Foucault. His most influential works were genealogies of phenomena as diverse as modern sexuality, clinics and prisons.

The key to understanding him is to understand what Foucault meant by a genealogy. It was not a history or even a history of ideas. It was instead how a body of knowledge, or science, had developed and been used to seize and wield power. Explicitly denying the fact that objective sciences of humanity were possible, he saw psychology, criminology and even to an extent physiology as merely tools of power.

That’s why he begins Discipline and Punish with a subject as seemingly esoteric as the classical theory that any crime was an attack on the king’s metaphorical body. Thus, he describes the elaborate public ritual where redress was made on the prisoner’s physical body.

What Foucault wants is to convince the reader that this archaic form of punishment was rational to the men of that day. By this, he can shake from the reader’s head any idea that the modern system of prisons is any more rational than this was.

It’s an ingenious and influential work—although in my opinion too influential. While I cannot argue with Foucault’s genealogy—nobody has read more or could trace lineages better than he—I will point out that, after destroying the rationale for imprisonment, he puts nothing in its place. Perhaps, it’s unfair to demand that he should have single-handedly come up with his own theory of retributive justice, but for those of us who have to live in this world, it’s rather discomfiting to see prisons torn down and nothing erected in their place.

Ingenious, important but ultimately pernicious, in my opinion. Still an incredibly rewarding work of modern philosophy. Highly recommended.

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The only way I want to experience Foucault is to listen to him on an Audiobook.

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Michel Foucault is the writer who has had the strongest influence on me in the last 10 years. Audiobooks are the only way I can absorb Foucault. Foucault is amazing, essential, mind expanding; but dense. I had to learn how to 'read' him first. My partner taught me that rather than reading a passage, understanding it fully, moving on to the next in a linear sequence; with him its better to read in waves, revisiting, letting words wash over a couple of times. Words gather meaning with him incrementally, nuance is built in layers as he goes from positing a statement, to illustrating it in plain speak, to explaining it through a historic example, to another example and another etc, finally leaving you with a very 3 dimensional idea of a concept, as its meaning has been 'triangulated' from many angles.

Translating him cannot be easy. The 4 stars, is because i think he can be translated simpler for today.

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This was made in the 1960s. The one direction continues and please read the quote

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It's an interesting book. The type of one that makes one realize we are worse off then ever if people would bother reading these things or even considering these thing. Quotes like these one are worth paying attention too, its a good example of how the elite view the masses. I found this interesting pg. 102-103 for the interested reader.

"When you have thus formed the CHAIN OF IDEAS IN THE HEADS OF YOUR CITIZENS, you will then be able to PRIDE YOURSELVES ON GUIDING THEM AND BEING THEIR MASTERS. A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas; it is at the stable point of reason that he secures the end of the chain; this link is all the stronger in what we do not know of what it is made and we believe it to be our own work; despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel; but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas; they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibers of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires (103) More or less nothing is true and everything is permitted appears to be the mindset. Quotes like these one were written centuries before and I can't imagine what's been dreamed up, accept I suspect people will continue moving in the one direction, not questioning anything, and just following as usual. Throw technology into the mix and you can be responsible for dooming future generations permanently, probably at the higher levels it becomes sillier, why would they believe in something that they themselves made up, an idea that came from their own head, to control others.

It's quotes like these that show more of the secret and oh so wonderful aspects of the human race. It's all rather disappointing in my eyes. The book itself is an interesting read, but Foucault has a tendency of making me rather depressed when I read his work. However, his goal in a Nietzschean way was to use his own works to transform himself. So good read and he's rather outdated now, we've had another 60+ years in a way to continue the process of control we can see it 10X amplified. Until people stop believing in ideas or following along there won't be any change. It would be more like an exodus, sillier when educated men most of them knowing metaphysics sat down and made up a Declaration of Independence, not that anyone knows the foundations or what it was taken from or built upon, again all ideas. I think the end goal is a genetically bred drone class to an elite in a technological controlled world, worse then the Panopticon or more of a communal telepathic world where everyone, thinks, acts, and does the same thing, but still just as controlled.

So a good book for the interested reader willing to uncover more.

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Richard Elendu

Exactly what I expected

Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2022

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Exactly what I expected

Becky H

Sehr informativ

Reviewed in Germany on July 16, 2023

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Wunderschönes Cover und ein sehr interessantes Buch! Sowhol als private Lektüre als auch für die Uni sehr bereichernd gewesen. Es gibt philosophische, soziologische, historische und auch architektonische Einblicke in das System!

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Possibly Foucault's best work.

Reviewed in Italy on August 2, 2023

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Marietta

Need quotes for Degree/Masters on witchcraft? You need this.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2021

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I got this (Kindle version) to help with information for my Postgrad Masters. I’m doing Visual Arts/Fine Art and my subject is Witchcraft and looking specifically at the Witch trials of the 1600’s. Skip the parts about prisons and get to the punishments and tortures, which are particularly relevant to how witches were treated to get confessions and their subsequent mode of death. I’m not even half way through and have so many great quotes.

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Libro imprescindible

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LIBRO imprescindible para los estudiantes de sociología, filosofía o ciencias políticas y comprender el actual sistema penintenciario occidental. Gran autor

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