Rewriting the History of Madness - Studies in Foucault's `Histoire de la Folie' (Hardcover, abridged edition annotated edition)

Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the human sciences since his first book "Madness and Civilization" appeared in English. When it appeared in Britain in 1967 it was read as part of the anti-psychiatry movement of the time. Only retrospectively has it been seen as the start of a profoundly original and influential theory on the nature of knowledge and power. "Rewriting the History of Madness" is a collection of essays centred around a provocative paper by Colin Gordon, which claims that major critics have failed to take note of the depth of Foucault's researches because of their excessive dependence on the English translation of the abridged 1965 edition. The collection takes Gordon's essay as a starting point, but ranges widely in drawing out the significance of Foucault's writings for modern thought in a variety of disciplines.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1992
First published:	1992
Editors:	Arthur Still • Irving Velody
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	236
Edition:	abridged edition annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-06654-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-415-06654-9
Barcode:	9780415066549

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