Madness and Civilization - Couverture souple

Foucault, Michel

 
9780415040181: Madness and Civilization
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0415040183 ISBN 13 : 9780415040181
Editeur : Routledge, 1971

Synopsis

In recent years the question of madness and how to define it has become the centre of a great deal of discussion. This is the question the distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer by studying madness from 1500 to 1800 - from the Middle Ages when insanity was considered part of everyday life and fools and madmen walked the streets, to the point when these people began to be considered a threat, asylums were built for the first time, and a wall was erected between the insane and the rest of humanity.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In recent years the question of madness and how to define it has become the centre of a great deal of discussion. This is the question the distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer by studying madness from 1500 to 1800 - from the Middle Ages when insanity was considered part of everyday life and fools and madmen walked the streets, to the point when these people began to be considered a threat, asylums were built for the first time, and a wall was erected between the insane and the rest of humanity.

Biographie de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
1971
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415040183
ISBN 13 
9780415040181
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  067972110X ISBN 13 :  9780679721109
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1988
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