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...
評分福柯的钥匙 一次要感谢无规可循的阅读,在各种后现代理论著作被大量翻译引进之际,在福柯被如日中天地炒作,“人之死”,“解构”,“身体—权力”等字眼以疯癫的频率出现于各种大报小刊之时,我幸运的读到了这本《疯癫与文明》。据说,在福柯这颗20世纪最伟大的头脑中产生了...
評分47年前,一个不循规蹈矩的人,写了一本不循规蹈矩的书。今天,对于思想需要呼吸自由新鲜空气的我们来说,这本书仍然值得一读。这个人,是法国思想家福柯;这本书,是他的博士论文和成名作——《疯癫与文明——理性时代的疯癫史》。 一、读 书 用福柯自己说过的一句话可以...
評分福柯于1961年发表的博士论文《疯癫和文明》是他的第一部著作,由此开始他关于理性与系谱学的探索。在这部书中他向我们指出:我们现有的关于疯癫的知识都是理性的噪音,真正的疯癫在缄默。本文是该书的学习笔记,旨在综述福柯关于理性、非理性与疯癫的关系、疯癫的话语与权力的...
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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absolutely ambitious and great interpretation. a mad man could never talk to a modern man under this 'ratioanlized' world-the saddest thing ever.
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