Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish examines the emergence of the modern prison and changing approaches to punishment. It places incarceration within a wider study of discipline, authority, and social institutions, offering a challenging philosophical and historical perspective on the forces that shape modern life.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison is a major work by Michel Foucault.
The book explores the development of modern systems of punishment and the emergence of the prison.
It considers discipline as a force that extends beyond incarceration into broader social institutions and practices.
Foucault's study offers a philosophical and historical examination of how punishment changes over time.
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