Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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  • Interesting and catchy reading  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    I was making my architecture theses and tutor recommended to take this book to go into deeper philosophical issue of my theme. It was helpful to understand how juridical apparatus which working and changing in the society. It was easy to see how to s
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  • Grisly ...  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    Michel Foucault is a rather difficult to pigeonhole individual as belonging to one or another scholarly discipline. Is he a philosopher? Well, yes, but there is much more to his work than philosophical inquiry. Is he a psychologist? I suppose That Co
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  • Power is Knowledge  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    Foucault's epistemology is clear - knowledge Develops from power. This is an interesting genealogy of the penal system but, on analytical and critical depiction of an Observed social phenomenom, it is not. Foucault's sociology of the body is quite an
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  • Crucial work in Foucault's oeuvre  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    Following "L'archeologie du savoir" ("The Archaeology of Knowledge") Foucault's work increasingly focused on the analysis of social institutions. "Surveiller et punir" ("Discipline and Punish") which critically accl
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  • Becomes riveting around Page 220  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    Foucault traces the history of the prison system and the fundamental change in punishment That Took Place in the seventeenth century from retributive punishment of criminals, 'supplice,' to the rehabilitation of delinquents. Foucault is Concerned wit
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  • Ready for a prison escape?  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    Get ready for a new way of looking at the prison system and the history background That precedes it. This is a critical study of the origins of the prison system and the penalization of criminals. Not an easy read by No Means, but a truely provacativ
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  • A Must Read To Anyone intrested in The Human Condition  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    This is by far one of the best books I have read on the criminal system and how it dehumanizes and objectifies it did so we are able to do what we do in prisons.
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  • A great philosophical work!  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    Foucault's work is more philosophical than historical, and, as examined, he is not bound by historical Rules of Evidence. THUS, the criticisms of the previous reviewer do not apply. This is a thoroughly enjoyable work for anyone interested in a serio
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  • BASIC ERRORS IN SCHOLARSHIP  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    Do read this book.Then read 'Foucault' by JGMerquior. Then see if you can find a single good attempt to refute Merquior's arguments.Then ask yourself why you can not find one.Finally, ask yourself what value Foucault's work has if his hordes of disci
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  • A challenge to traditional conceptions of the prison. p  

    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
    Using academic works and legal documents dating back to the early 1700s, Foucault constructs a history of punishment in France, beginning with the spectacle of corporal punishment and public execution and ending with the institution of the modern pri
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