Madness and civilization: a history of insanity in the age of reason

By:

Foucault, Michel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Vintage Classics New York 1988Description: xiii, 299 pISBN:

9780679721109

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

616.89009 FOU

Summary: Michel Foucault examines the archaeology 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Non-fiction	616.89009 FOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		003316

Michel Foucault examines the archaeology 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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