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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2001
ISBN
9780415253857, 0415253853
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
770 kB (788634 bytes)
Series
Social Science Paperbacks
Edition
2
Pages
159\159
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

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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