- Prison discipline, Punishment, Prisons, Discipline
English version of "Surveiller et punir : naissance de la prison"
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Grave, cool, earnest and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Michel Foucault, Simon Prebble
- First published
- April 25, 1991
- Pages
- 333
- Publisher
- Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A., Biblioteca Nueva, Vozes
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Portuguese, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780241386019
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“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, thighs and calves with red-hot pincers, his right hand, holding the knife with which he committed the said parricide, burnt with sulphur, and,on those places where the flesh will be torn away, poured molten lead, boiling oil, burning resin, wax and sulphur melted together and then his body drawn and quartered by four horses and his limbs and body consumed by fire, reduced to ashes and his ashes thrown to the winds' (Pieces originales . . ., 372-4).”
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