| Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Contributor(s): Foucault, Michel (Author) |
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ISBN: 067972110X ISBN-13: 9780679721109 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1988 Annotation: Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - History | Europe - General - Philosophy | Movements - Structuralism |
| Dewey: 157 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.24" W x 8.06" (0.58 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |