Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Michel Foucault

320 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 b...

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