Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of ReasonIn this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself. |
Contents
The Great Confinement | 35 |
The Insane | 61 |
Passion and Delirium | 80 |
Aspects of Madness | 111 |
Doctors and Patients | 151 |
The Great Fear | 189 |
The New Division | 210 |
The Birth of the Asylum | 229 |
CONCLUSION | 265 |
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agitation already animal appears asylum become Bicêtre body brain cause Charité classical period Claude Lévi-Strauss constitutes contrary cure death delirious delirium disease disorder doubtless dream effect eighteenth century Encyclopédie entire essential established evil experience of madness fact fear fibers frenzy hallucinations heat Hôpital Général hospital houses of confinement human humors hypochondria hysteria ideas idleness illusion imagination immediate insane labor language lazar houses lettres de cachet liberty linked longer madman 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 presence prisoners punishment qualities reason relation religion religious segregation Renaissance restored rigor Routledge Samuel Tuke scandal secret sensibility seventeenth century Ship of Fools social soul spirits strange structure sufferer symbolic symptoms T. S. Eliot theme therapeutics tion transgression truth Tuke unity vapors violence wisdom