Paperback, 333 pages
English language
Published April 25, 1995 by Vintage Books.
4 stars
(35 reviews)
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.
In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Subjects
- Prisons
- Prison discipline
- Punishment
- France