Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of ReasonIn 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. |
Contents
Stultifera Navis | 3 |
The Great Confinement | 38 |
The Insane | 65 |
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault Limited preview - 1988 |
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault Limited preview - 2013 |
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agitation appears asylum become Bicêtre body brain cause Charité classical period constitutes contrary cure death delirious delirium disease disorder doubtless dream effect eighteenth century Encyclopédie entire essential established evil experience of madness fact fear fibers forms frenzy hallucinations heat Hieronymus Bosch Hôpital Général hospital houses of confinement human humors hypochondria hysteria ical ideas idleness illusion imagination immediate insane labor language lazar houses leper leprosy lettres de cachet liberty linked longer madman MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION mania manifest meaning melan melancholia melancholic ment mind moral movement nature nerves nervous ness night non-being object observation organized paradoxical Paris passion patient Philippe Pinel physician Pinel poverty prisoners psychological punishment qualities reason relation religion Renaissance restored rigor Samuel Tuke scandal secret sensibility seventeenth century Ship of Fools social soul strange sufferer symbolic symptoms theme therapeutics things tion transgression truth Tuke tury unity unreason vapors violence