Solitary Confinement Social Death and Its Afterlives

Name: Solitary Confinement Social Death and Its Afterlives
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ISBN: 9780816679591

ISBN-10: 0816679592

ISBN-13: 9780816679591

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lisa Guenther

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Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons—even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly important and original book, Lisa Guenther examines the death-in-life experience of solitary confinement in America from the early nineteenth century to today’s supermax prisons. Documenting how solitary confinement undermines prisoners’ sense of identity and their ability to understand the world, Guenther demonstrates the real effects of forcibly isolating a person for weeks, months, or years.Drawing…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 8/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Critical Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement



The Early U.S. Penitentiary System



An Experiment in Living Death



Person, World, and Other: A Husserlian Critique of Solitary Confinement



The Racialization of Criminality and the Criminalization of Race: From the Plantation to the Prison Farm



The Modern Penitentiary



From Thought Reform to Behavior Modification



Living Relationality: Merleau-Ponty's Critical Phenomenological Account of Behavior



Beyond Dehumanization: A Posthumanist Critique of Intensive Confinement



Supermax Prisons



Supermax Confinement and the Exhaustion of Space



Dead Time: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Temporality of Supermax Confinement



From Accountability to Responsibility: A Levinasian Critique of Supermax Rhetoric


Conclusion: Afterlives


Notes


Bibliography


Index