Sheridan, Alan

De Gaulle by Jean Lacouture ( Book )
5 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 1,528 libraries worldwide

André Gide : a life in the present by Alan Sheridan ( Book )
13 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 917 libraries worldwide
This is a biography of one of the greatest 20th-century writers, Andre Gide - novelist and essayist, patron, fervent homosexual and political innocent.

Michel Foucault : the will to truth by Alan Sheridan ( Book )
30 editions published between 1980 and 1997 in English and French and held by 914 libraries worldwide
Michel Foucault, the French philosopher, was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century.

Rimbaud by Pierre Petitfils ( Book )
1 edition published in 1987 in English and held by 614 libraries worldwide

Gilles & Jeanne by Michel Tournier ( Book )
3 editions published between 1989 and 1990 in English and held by 231 libraries worldwide

The sand child by Tahar Ben Jelloun ( Book )
3 editions published between 1989 and 2000 in English and held by 208 libraries worldwide

The sacred night by Tahar Ben Jelloun ( Book )
2 editions published between 1991 and 2000 in English and held by 183 libraries worldwide

The Devil in the flesh : a novel by Raymond Radiguet ( Book )
7 editions published between 1968 and 2005 in English and held by 173 libraries worldwide

Time and place by Alan Sheridan ( Book )
6 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 142 libraries worldwide

Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison by Michel Foucault ( Book )
7 editions published between 1977 and 1995 in English and held by 139 libraries worldwide
Before the early 19th century, European ideas of crime and punishment tended to involve very public displays of the power of the monarch and the power of the state against the offending individual. Nowhere was this tendency more evident than in the spectacle of public executions. Those convicted of murder, piracy, counterfeiting, or other notable capital crimes would be taken to a public place for hanging or decapitation, and certain kinds of crimes warranted particularly gruesome punishments. In Discipline and Punish, social theorist Michel Foucault directly confronts and challenges a number of existing ideas surrounding the prison reforms of the late 1700s and early 1800s, and even into the twentieth century. By looking at the evolution of justice systems (focusing primarily on France), he suggests that the shift away from public executions and towards the idea of incarceration and reform within prison walls was a means of reframing the image of the power of society over the individual. Public executions often had the effect of making a criminal into a public martyr, and the ballads and broadsides printed for the common people did less to condemn the crime and more to glorify the criminal. By shifting the focus of justice into the prison and out of the public eye, authorities would have more direct control over the lives of those who had violated the norms of society.