Description
The first English translation of one of the most famous and controversial works in the humanities and social sciences published in the last fifty years A key publicity title for 2006 that should be reviewed in several of the major papers, TLS, THES, LRB and more Foucault is a huge figure in Western intellectual and academic life and this is the book he is best known for The heavily abridged Routledge Classics edition is one of Routledge's bestsellers Includes a helpful foreword by Ian Hacking, a major Foucault scholar Stunning jacketed hardback with six superb black and white plates
Table of Contents
Foreword: History and Significance of Foucault窶冱 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窶冱 History of Madness
