Author | : Andrew Scull |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2020-03-30 |
ISBN 10 | : 0500295638 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780500295632 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Madness in Civilization
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This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the c
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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 everyda
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This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines. Foucault's anal
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"This specifically "literary" historical study situates the rather sudden emergence of madhouses ("Bedlam") on the Shakespearean stage in the sophisticated lite
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We live in a moment of unprecedented complexity, an era in which change occurs faster than our ability to comprehend it. With "The Moment of Complexity", Mark C
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