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History of Madness (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
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History of Madness (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
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When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison:
Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a
thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By
the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as
Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the
intellectual world. This translation is the first English edition
of the complete French texts of the first and second edition,
including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in
the existing French edition. History of Madness begins in the
Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and
confinement of lepers. Why, Foucault asks, when the leper houses
were emptied at the end of the Middle Ages, were they turned into
places of confinement for the mad? Why, within the space of several
months in 1656, was one out of every hundred people in Paris
confined? Shifting brilliantly from Descartes and early
Enlightenment thought to the founding of the Hopital General in
Paris and the work of early psychiatrists Philippe Pinel and Samuel
Tuke, Foucault focuses throughout, not only on scientific and
medical analyses of madness, but also on the philosophical and
cultural values attached to the mad. He also urges us to recognize
the creative and liberating forces that madness represents,
brilliantly drawing on examples from Goya, Nietzsche, Van Gogh and
Artaud. The History of Madness is an inspiring and classic work
that challenges us to understand madness, reason and power and the
forces that shape them.
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