Madness and Civilization: History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by Foucault, Michel
1989 · Paperback
ISBN 9780415040181
Book details
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Routledge London
- ISBN-13
- 9780415040181
- ISBN-10
- 0415040183
- Pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
About this book
In recent years the question of madness and how to define it has become the centre of a great deal of discussion. This is the question the distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer by studying madness from 1500 to 1800 - from the Middle Ages when insanity was considered part of everyday life and fools and madmen walked the streets, to the point when these people began to be considered a threat, asylums were built for the first time, and a wall was erected between the insane and the rest of humanity.
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