History of madness / Michel Foucault ; edited by Jean Khalfa ; translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa.

By:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984

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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Routledge, c2009.Description: xxxix, 725 p. ; 24 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

9780415477260

Uniform titles:

Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique

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DDC classification:

616.89009

Contents:

Pt. 1. -- 1. Stultifera Navis -- 2. The Great Confinement -- 3. The Correctional World -- 4. Experiences of Madness -- 5. The Insane -- Pt. 2. -- 1. The Madman in the Garden of Species -- 2. The Transcendence of Delirium -- 3. Figures of Madness -- 4. Doctors and Patients -- Pt. 3. -- 1. The Great Fear -- 2. The New Division -- 3. The Proper Use of Liberty -- 4. Birth of the Asylum -- 5. The Anthropological Circle -- Appendices -- 1. Madness, the absence of an oeuvre. Appendix I of 1972 -- 2. My body, this paper, this fire Appendix II of 1972 edition -- 3. Reply to Derrida ("Michel Foucault Derrida e no kaino". Paideia (Tokyo) February 1972) -- Annexes -- 1. Documents -- 2. Foucault's original bibliography -- 3. Bibliography of English works quoted in this translation -- 4. Critical bibliography.

Summary: When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et D’ÛÎ©raison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four-year-old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world. This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition. History of Madness begins in the Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of lepers. Why, Foucault asks, when the leper houses were emptied at the end of the Middle Ages, were they turned into places of confinement for the mad? Why, within the space of several months in 1656, was one out of every hundred people in Paris confined? Shifting brilliantly from Descartes and early Enlightenment thought to the founding of the Hôpital Général in Paris and the work of early psychiatrists Philippe Pinel and Samuel Tuke, Foucault focuses throughout, not only on scientific and medical analyses of madness, but also on the philosophical and cultural values attached to the mad. He also urges us to recognize the creative and liberating forces that madness represents, brilliantly drawing on examples from Goya, Nietzsche, Van Gogh and Artaud. The History of Madness is an inspiring and classic work that challenges us to understand madness, reason and power and the forces that shape them.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. --
1. Stultifera Navis --
2. The Great Confinement --
3. The Correctional World --
4. Experiences of Madness --
5. The Insane --
Pt. 2. --
1. The Madman in the Garden of Species --
2. The Transcendence of Delirium --
3. Figures of Madness --
4. Doctors and Patients --
Pt. 3. --
1. The Great Fear --
2. The New Division --
3. The Proper Use of Liberty --
4. Birth of the Asylum --
5. The Anthropological Circle --
Appendices --
1. Madness, the absence of an oeuvre. Appendix I of 1972 --
2. My body, this paper, this fire Appendix II of 1972 edition --
3. Reply to Derrida ("Michel Foucault Derrida e no kaino". Paideia (Tokyo) February 1972) --
Annexes --
1. Documents --
2. Foucault's original bibliography --
3. Bibliography of English works quoted in this translation --
4. Critical bibliography.

When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et D’ÛÎ©raison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four-year-old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world.

This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition.

History of Madness begins in the Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of lepers. Why, Foucault asks, when the leper houses were emptied at the end of the Middle Ages, were they turned into places of confinement for the mad? Why, within the space of several months in 1656, was one out of every hundred people in Paris confined?

Shifting brilliantly from Descartes and early Enlightenment thought to the founding of the Hôpital Général in Paris and the work of early psychiatrists Philippe Pinel and Samuel Tuke, Foucault focuses throughout, not only on scientific and medical analyses of madness, but also on the philosophical and cultural values attached to the mad. He also urges us to recognize the creative and liberating forces that madness represents, brilliantly drawing on examples from Goya, Nietzsche, Van Gogh and Artaud.

The History of Madness is an inspiring and classic work that challenges us to understand madness, reason and power and the forces that shape them.

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