Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason

Foucault, Michel 1926-1984 (Author).

Summary: Traces the literary, philosophical, and moral themes of madness as well as its social and theological impact in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.

Record details

ISBN: 067972110X
ISBN: 9780679721109
Physical Description: print
xiii, 299 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1988, ©1965.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Abridged translation of Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	"Stultifera Navis" -- The great confinement -- The insane -- Passion and delirium -- Aspects of madness -- Doctors and patients -- The great fear -- The new division -- The birth of the asylum -- Conclusion.