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Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the “insane” and the rest of humanity.
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, Michel Foucault
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- Released
- 1988
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michel Foucault
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 067972110X
- ISBN13
- 9780679721109
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Psychology, Society, Anthropology, Scientific Theories, Psychiatry, Mental Illness
- First published
- 1961
- Original title
- Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique
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- 4.1 out of 5
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- Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the “insane” and the rest of humanity.