By Michel Foucault
Edited by Jean Khalfa
Translated by Jonathan Murphy, Jean Khalfa
736 pages
Foreword: History and Significance of Foucault's History of Madness
Prefaces 1. 1961 Edition 2. 1972 Edition Part 1 1. Stultifera Navis 2.
The Great Confinement 3. The Correctional World 4. Experiences of
Madness 5. The Insane Part 2 1. The Madman in the Garden of Species 2.
The Transcendence of Delirium 3. Figures of Madness 4. Doctors and
Patients Part 3 1. The Great Fear 2. The New Division 3. The Proper
Use of Liberty 4. Birth of the Asylum 5. The Anthropological Circle
Appendices 1. Réponse à Derrida (Michel Foucault Derrida e no kaino
Paideia (Tokyo) February 1972) 2. La Folie, l'absence d'oeuvre
Appendix 1 of 1972 Edition 3. Mon corps, ce papier, ce feu Appendix 2
of 1972 Edition Notes Bibliography Critical Bibliography on Foucault's
History of Madness
When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison:
Histoire de la Folie à l'âge 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.
This 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.
History 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 the space
of several months in 1656, was one out of every hundred people in
Paris confined?
Shifting brilliantly from Descartes and early Enlightenment thought to
the founding of the Hôpital Général in Paris and the work of early
psychiatrists Philippe Pinel and Samuel Tuke, Foucault focuses
throughout, not only on scientific and medical analyses of madness,
but also on the philosophical and cultural values attached to the mad.
He also urges us to recognize the creative and liberating forces that
madness represents, brilliantly drawing on examples from Goya,
Nietzsche, Van Gogh and Artaud.
The History of Madness is an inspiring and classic work that
challenges us to understand madness, reason and power and the forces
that shape them.
'Scarcely any philosopher working on the history of philosophy, or
historian working on the history of institutions, social science or
sexuality can avoid confronting the challenge of Foucault's books.' -
Michael Ignatieff, Times Literary Supplement
'Without a shadow of a doubt, the most original, influential and
controversial text in this field during the last forty years. It
remains as challenging now as on first publication. Its insights have
still not been fully appreciated and absorbed.' – Roy Porter
'Extraordinary…rich and insistent, and almost unreasonable in its
necessary repetitions.' – Maurice Blanchot
Michel Foucault (1926-84). Celebrated French thinker and activist who
challenged people's assumptions about care of the mentally ill, gay
rights, prisons, the police and welfare.
Jean Khalfa is a lecturer in French at Cambridge University, UK.
Jonathan Murphy is an experienced translator, editor and lecturer.
History of Medicine
Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult
Medical Sociology
Social Theory
Continental Philosophy
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