Discipline and Punish (Michel Foucault) Not my field of study or existence, but what happened in a bare hundred years to make public execution private, and prisons into factories into schools? It's a great book, you should read it. The Republic (Plato) How do you get someone to listen to you? (first answer: threaten them with violence). "Footnotes to" etc.
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I started with History of Sexuality because the topic interested me most. I think Discipline and Punish is the canonical starting point.
"History of Sexuality: Volume I" -Michel Foucault "Discipline and Punish" -Michel Foucault "Philosophy in the Flesh" -George Lakoff "Metaphors We Live By" -George Lakoff "Civilization and its Discontents" -Sigmund Freud These books allowed me to look at reality in a completely different manner.
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