History of Madness By Michel Foucault, Jean Khalfa

Name: History of Madness By Michel Foucault, Jean Khalfa
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

History of MadnessAuthor(s): Michel Foucault\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415477260, 978-0415477260\nSynopsis\nWhen it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Draison: Histoire de la Folie l'ge 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. \n\nThis 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. \n\nHistory 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.