Book · 1975 · Nonfiction

Discipline and Punish

Name: Discipline and Punish
Author: Michel Foucault

The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 333 pages

★ 7.8 editorial score

Punishment stopped tearing bodies apart in public and became timetables and cells. Foucault explains why: constant watching disciplines better than pain, and the same technique now runs schools and factories.

Genre

Philosophy History

Subject

Prison Punishment Capital punishment History

Time

1975

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Quote · 1993

“People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.”

Helen Prejean

Quote · 1796

“Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because, in committing it, the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.”

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