Author: Michel Foucault. Published by Vintage Books, New York, NY.,1973, Printed in USA. Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with overall age-yellow, slight wave to several pages, minor cover wear and two original price tags. Clean inside, tight spine.
MADNESS & CIVILIZATION, A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, is written by the distinguished French phychologist and philosopher, Michel Foucault, and it's his study of 'madness' that the book explores.
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions.
For more info on this Author, please see: Foucault, Michel | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (utm.edu)
ISBN: 039471914x
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