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

Foucault, Michel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 067972110X ISBN 13: 9780679721109

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1988

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.

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French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad?

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 067972110X
• ISBN 13: 9780679721109
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile