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Published
Penguin, June 2020
ISBN
9780241386019
Format
Softcover, 352 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 13cm × 2cm

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Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. In this provocative work, Michel Foucault argues that the development of the Western system of prisons, police and legal hierarchies have merely shifted the focus of social control from our bodies to our souls.

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