Solitary confinement : social death and its afterlives / Lisa Guenther.

Author/creator Guenther, Lisa, 1971-
Format Electronic
PublicationMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Copyright Date©2013
Description1 online resource (353 pages)
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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.
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Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013).
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9780816686247 (e-book)

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