B&B Meeting: Discipline And Punish -- Michel Foucault

Everyone, please join us on Monday, June 22 at 7 p.m. to discuss Discipline And Punish by Michel Foucault. | 309pp.

Discipline and Punish is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in modern Western penal systems. Foucault argues that prison did not become the principal form of punishment just because of the humanitarian concerns of reformists. He traces the cultural shifts that led to the predominance of prison via discourse on the body and power and by examining the parallel use of discipline in schools, hospitals, and the military.

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