Psychiatric Power
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
Published on 4. April 2006
Book
Hardback
XXIV, 383 pages
978-1-4039-6922-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this new addition to the Collège 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.
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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
More details
Series
Edition
2006
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XXIV, 383 p.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-6922-4 (9781403969224)
DOI
10.1057/9780230245068
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
04/2006
1st Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
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Persons
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.
Content
Foreword Introduction Translator's Note 7 November 1973 14 November 1973 21 November 1973 28 November 1973 5 December 1973 12 December 1973 19 December 1973 9 January 1974 16 January 1974 23 January 1974 30 January 1974 6 February 1974 Course Summary Course Context Index of Notions Index of Names Index of Places