By Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan
During this remarkable paintings, the main influential thinker considering that Sartre means that such vaunted reforms because the abolition of torture and the emergence of the fashionable detention center have in simple terms shifted the focal point of punishment from the prisoner's physique to his soul.
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