Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College De France, 1973--1974 - Brossura

Foucault, Michel

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ISBN 10: 0312203314 ISBN 13: 9780312203313

Casa editrice: Picador, 2008

Riassunto

In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal Madness and Civilization, sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. Madness and Civilization undertook the archeology of the division according to which, in Western Society, the madman found himself separated from the sane. That book ends with the medicalization of madness at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Psychiatric Power continues this discourse up to the end of the nineteenth century, and the double "depsychiatrization" of madness, now dispersed between the neurologist and the psychoanalyst. Presented in a conversational tone, Psychiatric Power brings fresh access and light to the work of one of the past century's preeminent thinkers.

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Informazioni sull?autore

MICHEL FOUCAULT, acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0312203314
• ISBN 13: 9780312203313
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 414
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