Guenther, Lisa,  1971- <br/><br/>
Solitary confinement :  social death and its afterlives / 
Lisa Guenther. 
 - 1 online resource (353 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780816686247 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Solitary confinement--History.<br/>Solitary confinement--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV9471  / .G84 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365/.644