Solitary confinement : social death and its afterlives /
Guenther, Lisa, 1971-
Solitary confinement : social death and its afterlives / Lisa Guenther. - 1 online resource (353 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index.
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.
9780816686247
Solitary confinement--History.
Solitary confinement--History.--United States
Electronic books.
HV9471 / .G84 2013
365/.644
Solitary confinement : social death and its afterlives / Lisa Guenther. - 1 online resource (353 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index.
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.
9780816686247
Solitary confinement--History.
Solitary confinement--History.--United States
Electronic books.
HV9471 / .G84 2013
365/.644