Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.
Michel Foucalt (1926-1984) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in postwar France. Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.
Discipline and Punish is clearly a tour de force ... that rare kind
of book whose methods and conclusions must be reckoned with by
humanists, social scientists and political activists
*The New York Times Book Review*
Foucault's genius is called forth into eloquent clarity of his
passions ... his best book
*Washington Post*
'The main line of the thesis is enormously appealing and the range
of historical sources and, even more, the analytical skill with
which they are made to yield up their secrets, is quite
dazzling'
*International Journal of Criminology and Penology*
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