Description
In this new addition to the College de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.
About the Author
Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.
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Book Information
ISBN 9781403969224
Author M. Foucault
Format Hardback
Page Count 383
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave USA
About the Author
Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.
Reviews
Praise for Michel Foucault:
"[Foucault] must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists." - The New York Times Book Review
"Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture." - The Nation
Book Information
ISBN 9781403969224
Author M. Foucault
Format Hardback
Page Count 383
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave USA
