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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason () is a 1964 abridged edition of a 1961 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. An English translation of the complete 1961 edition, entitled History of Madness, was published Read More..

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Description	Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason () is a 1964 abridged edition of a 1961 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. An English translation of the complete 1961 edition, entitled History of Madness, was published in June 2006.Foucault's first major book, Madness and Civilization is an examination of the evolving meaning of madness in European culture, law, politics, philosophy and medicine from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, and a critique of historical method and the idea of history. It marks a turning in Foucault's thought away from phenomenology toward structuralism: though he uses the language of phenomenology to describe an evolving experience of "the other" as mad, he attributes this evolution to the influence of specific powerful social structures.
Description	Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason () is a 1964 abridged edition of a 1961 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. An English translation of the complete 1961 edition, entitled History of Madness, was published in June 2006.Foucault's first major book, Madness and Civilization is an examination of the evolving meaning of madness in European culture, law, politics, philosophy and medicine from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, and a critique of historical method and the idea of history. It marks a turning in Foucault's thought away from phenomenology toward structuralism: though he uses the language of phenomenology to describe an evolving experience of "the other" as mad, he attributes this evolution to the influence of specific powerful social structures.

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Name	Madness and Civilization
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Authors	Michel Foucault
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Translator	Richard Howard (abridged edition)Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (unabridged edition)
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Language	French
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Pages	299 (Vintage edition)725 (unabridged edition)
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Media_type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
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Isbn	0-679-72110-X
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