Discipline and Punish vs Reason & violence: 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 Reason & violence Reason & violence R. D. Laing · 1964 ★★★★☆ 3.8 184 pages · ≈ 3 h 24 m · Challenging

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…

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Discipline and PunishReason & violence
Hardcover 4.2 (62) —
Apple Books 4.0 (24) —

Reception

Discipline and PunishReason & violence
Ratings 62 1
Editions 30 21
Film adaptations 1 —
Wikipedia attention 6210 —
Pages 333 184

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