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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: A Critical Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement -- I. The Early U.S. Penitentiary System: 1. An Experiment in Living Death; 2. Person, World, and Other: A Husserlian Critique of Solitary Confinement; 3. The Racialization of Criminality and the Criminalization of Race: From the Plantation to the Prison Farm -- II. The Modern Penitentiary: 4. From Thought Reform to Behavior Modification; 5. Living Relationality: Merleau-Ponty's Critical Phenomenological Account of Behavior; 6. Beyond Dehumanization: A Posthumanist Critique of Intensive Confinement -- III. Supermax Prisons: 7. Supermax Confinement and the Exhaustion of Space; 8. Dead Time: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Temporality of Supermax Confinement; 9. From Accountability to Responsibility: A Levinasian Critique of Supermax Rhetoric -- Conclusion. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013). |
| Subject |
Solitary confinement -- History.
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Solitary confinement -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9780816679584 (hardback) |
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9780816679591 (pb) |
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9780816686247 (electronic bk.) |
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