Discipline & Punish - Michel Foucault torrent

Category: Political
Language: EnglishKeywords: Philosophy Non-fiction 20th Century
Written by Michel Foucault
Read by Simon Prebble
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (UNABRIDGED)
by Michel Foucault
Narrated by Simon Prebble
LENGTH: 13 hrs and 12 mins
RELEASE DATE: 09-23-13
PUBLISHER: Tantor Audio
Publisher’s Summary
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as Foucault examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, he suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoner’s body to his soul - and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity. Lucidly reasoned and deftly marshaling a vast body of research, Discipline and Punish is a genuinely revolutionary audiobook, whose implications extend beyond the prison to the minute power relations of our society.
©1975 Editions Gallimard, Paris (P)2013 Tantor
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (UNABRIDGED)
by Michel Foucault
Narrated by Simon Prebble

LENGTH: 13 hrs and 12 mins
RELEASE DATE: 09-23-13
PUBLISHER: Tantor Audio

Publisher’s Summary

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as Foucault examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, he suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoner’s body to his soul - and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity. Lucidly reasoned and deftly marshaling a vast body of research, Discipline and Punish is a genuinely revolutionary audiobook, whose implications extend beyond the prison to the minute power relations of our society.

©1975 Editions Gallimard, Paris (P)2013 Tantor