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  Discipline & Punish

  The Birth of the Prison

  by Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan

  In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
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  The History of Sexuality : An Introduction

  by Michel Foucault

  The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.
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  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences (Vintage)

  by Michel Foucault

  Possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century, it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant.
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  Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Vintage)

  by Michel Foucault

  Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad?
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  A History of Disability (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)

  by Henri-Jacques Stiker

  The increasing numbers of scholars, policy-makers, and political activists who are concerned with questions of physical and cognitive disability will warmly welcome Henri-Jacques Stiker's book, the first to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages. Published in 1997 in France as Corps infirmes et sociétés and available now in an excellent English translation, the book traces the... (more)