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

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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.

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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, Michel Foucault

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1988
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Lingua
Inglese
Editore
Vintage
Pubblicato
1988
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
320
ISBN10
067972110X
ISBN13
9780679721109
Serie
Prima pubblicazione
1961
Titolo originale
Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique
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4,1 su 5
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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.