Discipline and Punish vs Reason & violence: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Essays, Philosophy
Discipline and Punish
“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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Reason & violence
A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a…
The verdict
- Readers rate Discipline and Punish highest: Discipline and Punish 4.1 · Reason & violence 3.8.
- Reason & violence is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 6 for Discipline and Punish.
- Discipline and Punish has the widest readership — 62 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Discipline and Punish | Reason & violence | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 4.2 (62) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (24) | — |
Reception
| Discipline and Punish | Reason & violence | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 62 | 1 |
| Editions | 30 | 21 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 6210 | — |
| Pages | 333 | 184 |