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by Michel Foucault

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Michel Foucault's most admired book is an incisive history of changing attitudes toward mental illness of Western Europe between 1500 and 1800.

Madness and Civilization investigates the archeology of madness, tracing shifting perceptions through changes in the culture, laws, politics, philosophy, and medical practices of the West. In the late Middle Ages, insanity was still considered part of everyday life and people who were commonly labeled fools and lunatics walked the streets freely. It was only later on, when such people began to be considered a threat, that asylums were first built and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity. For those fascinated by the evolution of mental health and its impact on society both in the past and now, Madness and Civilization is an illuminating and indispensable read.

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AT the end of the Middle Ages, leprosy disappeared from the Western world.

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Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad?

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  • Title Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
  • Author Michel Foucault
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition INTERNATIONAL ED
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1988-11-28
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780679721109 / 067972110X
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.24 x 0.61 in (20.47 x 13.31 x 1.55 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Mental illness, Psychiatry - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 157

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"Superb scholarship rendered with artistry" --The Nation

About the author

Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.
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