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Discipline & Punish

The Birth of the Prison

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Discipline & Punish

Written by: Michel Foucault
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
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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 Criminology Philosophy Social Sciences Sociology Crime Capitalism
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The narrator reads the academic subject matter like an irish captain kirk. The breathy narration would be appropriate for a murder/sex thriller. I found it off putting and it prevented me from listening to a book I've read and loved for years.

Worst narrator ever

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