History of Madness in the Classical Age
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History of Madness in the Classical Age
19.99 €
This book, part of an ambitious “archaeological” project by the French theorist and researcher Michel Foucault (1926–1984), is based on his doctoral dissertation, which he wrote after working for several years in psychiatric hospitals.
“The History of Madness in the Classical Age” (1961) is an attempt to analyze and interpret the ideas about the nature of madness that were current in European culture from the 17th to the 19th centuries, undertaken to lay bare the genealogy of psychiatric practice in the 20th century. Foucault, turning to medieval medical treatises, popular superstitions of the past, and literary images, asks how the idea of madness and the attitude towards it in society changed. How did madness become a disease subject to specialized treatment? How did Homo sapiens, who took it upon himself to judge the mad, come into being?
“The History of Madness in the Classical Age” (1961) is an attempt to analyze and interpret the ideas about the nature of madness that were current in European culture from the 17th to the 19th centuries, undertaken to lay bare the genealogy of psychiatric practice in the 20th century. Foucault, turning to medieval medical treatises, popular superstitions of the past, and literary images, asks how the idea of madness and the attitude towards it in society changed. How did madness become a disease subject to specialized treatment? How did Homo sapiens, who took it upon himself to judge the mad, come into being?
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