Discipline and Punish vs The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Which Should You Read?

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"

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas S. Kuhn · 1955 ★★★★☆ 4.0 210 pages · ≈ 3 h 53 m · Challenging

Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index.