Full name: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Author: Michel Foucault Year: 1961 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, History, Non Fiction, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679721109 067972110X

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity. Similar books: The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas The Discovery of the Mind by Bruno Snell Security, Territory, Population by Michel Foucault Happiness by Darrin M. McMahon The Spectacle of the Scaffold by Michel Foucault Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti Nietzsche by Walter Arnold Kaufmann The Order of Things by Michel Foucault Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler Poststructuralism by Catherine Belsey The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee The Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernest Becker True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna