Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad?
Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679721109 (067972110X)
ASIN: 067972110X
Publish date: November 28th 1988
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
UPDATE:I realize now (as I read Dreyfus and Rabinow) that I completely misread this book. I read it too quickly, and the book is maddeningly eccentric and so difficult to comprehend. Further, I read it without sufficient context either of this book itself, or of Foucault's corpus, or of the philosop...