Title:
Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason
Author:
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
ISBN:
9780415255394
9780415253857
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Uniform Title:
Folie et déraison. English
Publication Information:
London : Routledge, 2001.
Physical Description:
xiv, 282 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Routledge classics
Routledge classics.
General Note:
Originally published in Great Britain: Tavistock Publications, 1967.
Contents:
"Stultifera navis" -- The great confinement -- The insane -- Passion and delirium -- Aspects of madness -- Doctors and patients -- The great fear -- The new division -- The birth of the asylum.
Abstract:
This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines. Foucault's analysis of psychology is a devastating critique of the common understanding of insanity.
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Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780415255394.pdf