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Madness and Civilization
1961 book by Michel Foucault
The Librairie Plon edition | |
Author | Michel Foucault |
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Original title | Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique |
Translator | Richard Howard (abridged edition) Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (unabridged edition) |
Language | French |
Subject | Insanity |
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Publication place | France |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 299 (Vintage edition) 725 (unabridged edition) |
ISBN | 0-679-72110-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