Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison / Michael Foucault; traducción de Alan Sheridan

Traducción de: As surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison

Bibliografía: páginas 326-333

Barely 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 book by the most influential philosopher since Sartre compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuring reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as he examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor ad the appearance of the modern enitentiary, Michel Foucault suggests that punishment has shifted its locus from the prisoner's body to his soul- and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity. Lucidly reasoned and deftly marshalling a vast body of research, Discipline and punish is a genuinely revolutionary book, whose implications extend beyond the prison to the minute power relations of our society. spa