Solitary confinement : social death and its afterlives / Lisa Guenther.
| Author/creator | Guenther, Lisa, 1971- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013] |
| Copyright Date | ©2013 |
| Description | 1 online resource (353 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Click to View |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013). |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780816686247 (e-book) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |