Discipline and Punish vs Pedagogia do Oprimido: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Discipline and Punish Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault · 1975 ★★★★☆ 4.1 333 pages · ≈ 6 h 10 m · Challenging
“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,”

English version of "Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison"

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Cover of Pedagogia do Oprimido Pedagogia do Oprimido Paulo Freire · 1967 ★★★★☆ 4.3 186 pages · ≈ 3 h 27 m · Challenging

"The methodology of the late Paulo Freire, once considered such a threat to the established order that he was "invited" to leave his native Brazil, has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Discipline and PunishPedagogia do Oprimido
Goodreads — 4.3 (40814)
Hardcover 4.2 (62) 4.5 (2)
Google Books — 4.5 (2)
Apple Books 4.0 (24) —

Reception

Discipline and PunishPedagogia do Oprimido
Ratings 62 40814
Editions 30 19
Film adaptations 1 —
Wikipedia attention 6210 8641
Pages 333 186

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