Madness and Civilization
1961 book by Michel Foucault / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (French: Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, 1961)[lower-roman 1] is an examination by Michel Foucault of the evolution of the meaning of madness in the cultures and laws, politics, philosophy, and medicine of Europe—from the Middle Ages until the end of the 18th century—and a critique of the idea of history and of the historical method.
Author | Michel Foucault |
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Original title | Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique |
Translator | Richard Howard (abridged edition) Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (unabridged edition) |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Subject | Insanity |
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Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 299 (Vintage edition) 725 (unabridged edition) |
ISBN | 0-679-72110-X (Vintage edition) 0-415-27701-9 (unabridged edition) |
Although he uses the language of phenomenology to describe the influence of social structures in the history of the Othering of insane people from society, Madness and Civilization is Foucault's philosophic progress from phenomenology toward something like structuralism (a label Foucault himself always adamantly rejected).[1]