A Book Recommendation
Dear friends,
I’m the host for the forthcoming reading session and I’d like to share a book with you, Discipline and Punish, written by one of the most influential French philosophers in 20th century, Michel Foucault.
The book is considered his most satisfactory work according to Foucault himself. As you take a first read of the book, you will be attracted and shocked by its challengeable, passionate and literary expression. Telling with and commenting on the history of cruel torture reduction from 17th -19th century, Foucault aimed at examining the truth and mechanism of power in modern society, and he compared it to a huge prison and concluded that people became tamed and unfree.
Wish you enjoy this book. If you need any further information about it, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Li Ming
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A Book Recommendation
Dear friends,
I will be the host for an upcoming reading session. One of the books we will be discussing, which I would like to share with you here now, is Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, written by one of the most influential French philosophers in the 20th century, Michel Foucault. Many of its readers consider it as his most satisfactory work, mirroring the sentiments of Foucault himself. Upon your first reading of it, you will be both intrigued and repelled by its thought-provoking, passionate, and literary arguments.
While commenting on the historical use of torture, specifically, its reduction in severity through the 17th -19th centuries, Foucault aims at examining the true mechanisms of power in modern society. In essence, he compares individuals in society to criminals in a huge prison, and concludes that through various, yet subtle processes, people became docile and self-constrained. I hope that you can find the time to enjoy this book. If you need any further information about it, please do not hesitate to contact me.*
Hi, Li MIng. Good job! Whatever changes I made were to allow your sentences to sound more natural to my native ears, to clarify your thoughts, and for ease of reading. Sincere apologies if I have misinterpreted. I hope that this helps you. J.
*Typically, we use the present tense, rather than the past tense, for reviews.
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