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History of Madness-Michel Foucault
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- Book Title
- History of Madness-Michel Foucault
- ISBN
- 9780415477260
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Clinical Psychology
- Publication Name
- History of Madness
- Item Height
- 234 mm
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis LTD
- Item Weight
- 1193 g
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 728 Pages
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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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Publisher
Taylor & Francis LTD
ISBN-13
9780415477260
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages
728 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
History of Madness
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Clinical Psychology
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
234 mm
Item Weight
1193 g
Item Width
156 mm
Additional Product Features
Editor
Jean Khalfa
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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