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A History of Madness in the Classical Age
A History of Madness in the Classical Age
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French master of thought—Michel Foucault’s heavyweight classic reappears!
The best complete translation in the Chinese world!
The best complete translation in the Chinese world!
"In short, I want a book not to appear as a text, a reduced object of pedagogy or criticism; I want it to be free and elegant, to appear as a discourse: At the same time it is both a battle and a weapon, a strategy and a collision, a struggle and a trophy or a wound, a situation but not a relic, an irregular encounter and a repeatable scene." -- Foucault
"The History of Madness in the Classical Era" is an important work by the French thought master and post-structuralist thinker Michel Foucault. The content is derived from his doctoral thesis. The central topic of this book is: how "rationality and irrationality" and "rationality and madness" took shape and emerged under historical conditions during the European Enlightenment. From this perspective, Foucault discussed two main issues: first, how psychiatry and psychology were formed and developed as a science; second, in the process of the collapse of the old royal family, the establishment of mental hospitals at the end of the 18th century What is the significance of its appearance? To understand Foucault's methodology, this book is a must-read.
What Foucault mainly talks about in this book is a history of madness and confinement from the Middle Ages to the 19th century; more in-depth, it attempts to establish a dialogue between madness and irrationality through the study of the structure of confinement; finally, it He also sketched out "a history of boundaries - obscure gestures that, once completed, are bound to be forgotten. Yet it is through these gestures that culture removes certain things." Outside.」
This book once became popular in the intellectual world as a condensed English version of "Madness and Civilization". This republished Chinese translation is directly derived from the French version and was published several years earlier than the full translation currently circulating in the English world. It not only restores the original appearance of Foucault's important work, but also avoids many differences due to editions and English translations. Many controversies and questions arise from the reasons.
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