Madness And Civilization: A History Of Insanity In The Age Of Reason

by Michel Foucault

2020-12-29 17:47:46

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people bega... Read more
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity. Less

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File size8 X 5.16 X 0.58 in
Print pages320
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date November 28, 1988
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679721109
Paul-Michel Doria Foucault (Oct 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relation...

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