Discipline & Punish - Michel Foucault
Category: Political
Tags: Political
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (UNABRIDGED) by Michel Foucault Narrated by Simon Prebble, LENGTH: 13 hrs and 12 mins RELEASE DATE: 09-23-13 PUBLISHER: Tantor Audio, Publishers Summary, Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as Foucault examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, he suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoners body to his soul - and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity. Lucidly reaso
