Western philosophys relationship with prisons stretches from Platos own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration. Philosophy Imprisoned The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration draws together a broad range of philosophical thinkers from both inside and outside prison walls in the United States and beyond who draw on a variety of critical perspectives including phenomenology deconstruction and feminist theory and historical and contemporary figures in philosophy including Kant Hegel Foucault and Angela Davis to think about prisons in this new historical era. All of these contributors have experiences within prison walls some are or have been incarcerated some have taught or are teaching in prisons and all have been students of both philosophy and the carceral system.