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Madness and Civilization

1961 book by Michel Foucault

The Librairie Plon edition

AuthorMichel Foucault
Original titleFolie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique
TranslatorRichard Howard (abridged edition)
Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (unabridged edition)
LanguageFrench
SubjectInsanity
Published
  • 1961 (Librairie Plon, in French)
  • 1964 (in English)
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages299 (Vintage edition)
725 (unabridged edition)
ISBN0-679-72110-X (Vintage edition)
0-415-27701-9 (unabridged edition)

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)[i] 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 cen