Michel Foucault (1926-84). Celebrated French thinker and activist who challenged people's assumptions about care of the mentally ill, gay rights, prisons, the police and welfare.
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Jean Khalfa is a lecturer in French at Cambridge University, UK.
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Jonathan Murphy is an experienced translator, editor and lecturer.
When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world.
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This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition.
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History of Madness begins in the Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of lepers. Why, Foucault asks, when the leper houses were emptied at the end of the Middle Ages, were they turned into places of confinement for the mad? Why, within the space of several months in 1656, was one out of every hundred people in Paris confined?
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Shifting brilliantly from Descartes and early Enlightenment thought to the founding of the Hôpital Général in Paris and the work of early psychiatrists Philippe Pinel and Samuel Tuke, Foucault focuses throughout, not only on scientific and medical analyses of madness, but also on the philosophical and cultural values attached to the mad. He also urges us to recognize the creative and liberating forces that madness represents, brilliantly drawing on examples from Goya, Nietzsche, Van Gogh and Artaud.
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The History of Madness is an inspiring and classic work that challenges us to understand madness, reason and power and the forces that shape them.
“疯癫不是一种自然现象,而是一种文明产物。”米歇尔•福柯如是说。 作为一种社会现象,在我们意识到这一切是如何发生以前,疯癫已被贴上羞耻的劣等的疾病标签,遭到健全理智主宰的现代世界的无情驱逐,于理性之光无法照耀的永夜,沉默着悲欢。而文化现象中的疯癫,却如尼...
评分 评分何尔德林患精神病三十六年,这个黑格尔最好的朋友患病后被黑格尔所抛弃,原因很简单,他是主张理性至上的,一个丧失了理性的人,在他看来,等于死亡。理性与非理性的对立,由此可见一斑。 《疯颠与文明》给我打开了这样一扇窗:我们所知道的文明史不过是一场理性对非理性的胜利...
评分《疯癫与文明》是福柯在巴黎高师的第一篇博士论文。作为一个常年来又搞基又SM又喜欢尝试濒死体验的人,他对“疯癫”二字似乎非常有发言权。——据说在他生前的很多时候,都是在夜晚里磕了药,看着夜空中的漫天星斗如流星般乱舞坠落,然后提笔写下了他很多著名的哲学。 这是一...
评分absolutely ambitious and great interpretation. a mad man could never talk to a modern man under this 'ratioanlized' world-the saddest thing ever.
评分overwhelmingly lengthy...
评分overwhelmingly lengthy...
评分overwhelmingly lengthy...
评分overwhelmingly lengthy...
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