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Book Title
History of Madness-Michel Foucault
ISBN
9780415477260
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Subject Area
Clinical Psychology
Language
English
Publication Name
History of Madness
Item Height
234mm
Author
Michel Foucault
Publisher
Taylor & Francis LTD
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
1193g
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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Subject Area
Clinical Psychology
Author
Michel Foucault
Publication Name
History of Madness
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
728 Pages

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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
1193g

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Michel Foucault
Editor
Jean Khalfa
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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