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The History of Reason in the Age of Madness - Foucault's Enlightenment and a Radical Critique of Psychiatry (Hardcover)
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The History of Reason in the Age of Madness - Foucault's Enlightenment and a Radical Critique of Psychiatry (Hardcover)
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The History of Reason in the Age of Madness revolves around three
axes: the Foucauldian critical-historical method, its relationship
with enlightenment critique, and the way this critique is
implemented in Foucault's seminal work, History of Madness.
Foucault's exploration of the origins of psychiatry applies his own
theories of power, truth and reason and draws on Kant's philosophy,
shedding new light on the way we perceive the birth and development
of psychiatric practice. Following Foucault's adoption of 'limit
attitude', which investigates the limits of our thinking as points
of disruption and renewal of established frames of reference, this
book dispels the widely accepted belief that psychiatry represents
the triumph of rationalism by somehow conquering madness and
turning it into an object of neutral, scientific perception. It
examines the birth of psychiatry in its full complexity: in the
late eighteenth century, doctors were not simply rationalists but
also alienists, philosophers of finitude who recognized madness as
an experience at the limits of reason, introducing a discourse
which conditioned the formation of psychiatry as a type of medical
activity. Since that event, the same type of recognition, the same
anthropological confrontation with madness has persisted beneath
the calm development of psychiatric rationality, undermining the
supposed linearity, absolute authority and steady progress of
psychiatric positivism. Iliopoulos argues that Foucault's critique
foregrounds this anthropological problematic as indispensable for
psychiatry, encouraging psychiatrists to become aware of the
epistemological limitations of their practice, and also to review
the ethical and political issues which madness introduces into the
apparent neutrality of current psychiatric discourse.
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