文档介绍：History of Madness
Praise for this new edition:
‘One of the major works of the twentieth century is finally available in English.
prehensive translation finally es one of the great divisions
within the world of reason; an occasion to revisit Madness and Civilization
as it was written.’ Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley
‘With this beautiful and moving book, Michel Foucault transformed our
understanding of the processes that had made psychiatry possible – the
process which had brought its object, mental illness, into existence, and
which inscribed it into our modern imagination as pathology, negativity,
petence and deficiency. In studying the history of madness in this way,
Foucault also taught us crucial lessons about the assembling of what we have
come to call ‘civilization’. Now, at last, English speaking readers can have
access to the depth of scholarship that underpinned Foucault’s analysis:
I have no doubt that this long awaited translation will have a transformative
effect on a new generation of readers.’ Nikolas Rose, London School of
Economics
Reviews of the original French edition:
‘A thick manuscript arrived: a philosophy thesis on the relations between
madness and unreason in the classical age, by an author I did not know. I was
dazzled when I read it.’ Philippe Ariès
‘This magnificent book . . . requires a mind that is capable of being in turn
a historian, a philosopher, a psychologist, and a sociologist . . . never simply
one of these . . . This is not a method that could be offered as an example;
it is not within the reach of just anybody. Something more than talent is
necessary.’ Fernand Braudel, Annales
Michel
Foucault
History of Madness
Edited by Jean Khalfa
Translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa
First published 2006 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
First published in French as ‘Folie et Dérai