Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison.

FOUCAULT (Michel).

Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison.

Translated from the French by Allan Sheridan. First edition in English. 8vo. [8], 333, [1] pp., ten illustrations across four plates. Original mauve cloth, spine and front cover lettered in silver, dust jacket (modern bookplate to front pastedown, contents clean and fresh; jacket with short closed tear at head of front panel, else a near fine and notably bright copy). New York, Pantheon Books, 1977.

£350.00

FOUCAULT (Michel).

Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison.

Foucault’s seminal exposition of the development of the disciplinary society, tracing the movement away from the regime of Feudal punishment, based on the terror of sovereign power, to the emergence of disciplinary power, typified by Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon prison design, ‘a marvellous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogeneous effects of power’ (p. 202).

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