On Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1961), by Michel Foucault

摘要

The original text of this work was published in Paris, in 1961, as Folie et D??raison: Histoire de la Folie ?? l'?￠ge Classique. Madness and Civilisation was the English translation (by Richard Howard) of an abridged French version from which 300 pages had been cut. A substantial number of the