Discipline and Punish vs To hell with culture, and other essays on art and society: 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 To hell with culture, and other essays on art and society To hell with culture, and other essays on art and society Herbert Edward Read · 1941 ★★★★☆ 3.7 193 pages · ≈ 3 h 34 m · Demanding
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Discipline and PunishTo hell with culture, and other essays on art and society
Goodreads — 3.6 (123)
Hardcover 4.2 (62) —
Google Books — 4.0 (2)
Apple Books 4.0 (24) —

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Discipline and PunishTo hell with culture, and other essays on art and society
Ratings 62 123
Editions 30 22
Film adaptations 1 —
Wikipedia attention 6210 —
Pages 333 193

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