Discipline and Punish
★ 4.1 avg
62 votes
About this book
English version of "Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison"
Reader Profile
4.1/5 · 62 readers · 333 pages · ≈ 6 h 10 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read Discipline and Punish?
About ≈ 6 h 10 m — 333 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Discipline and Punish?
333 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Discipline and Punish?
It sits on the Essays, Philosophy, History shelves.
Is Discipline and Punish in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Discipline and Punish?
Michel Foucault.
🏆 Awards
International Sociological Association Books of the Century
“On 2 March 1757 Damiens the regicide condemmed 'to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris', where he was to be 'taken and conveyed in a cart, wearing nothing but a a shirt, holding a torch of burning wax weighing two pounds'; then, 'in the said cart, to the place de Greve, where, on a scaffold that will be erected there, the flesh will be torn from his breasts, arms,”