Rewriting the History of Madness
Studies in Foucault's `Histoire de la Folie'
Published on 8. October 1992
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-0-415-06654-9 (ISBN)
Description
Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the human sciences since his first book Madness and Civilization appeared in English. This title assesses the reactions to Madness and Civilization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
523 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-06654-9 (9780415066549)
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Studies in Foucault's `Histoire de la Folie'
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Studies in Foucault's `Histoire de la Folie'
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Arthur Still | Irving Velody
Rewriting the History of Madness
Studies in Foucault's `Histoire de la Folie'
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10/2012
1st Edition
Routledge
€77.99
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Arthur Still, Irving Velody
Content
Introduction, Arthur Still, Irving Velody; Part 1 Reading Foucault; Chapter 1 Histoire de la folie, Colin Gordon; Part 2 Responses; Chapter 2 Foucault and the psychiatric practitioner, Peter Barham; Chapter 3 Madness, medicine and the state, Paul Bove; Chapter 4 The two readings of Histoire de la folie in France, Robert Castel; Chapter 5 'The lively sensibility of the Frenchman', Jan Goldstein; Chapter 6 Foucault, history and madness, Dominick LaCapra; Chapter 7 Foucault, ambiguity and the rhetoric of historiography, Allan Megill; Chapter 8 Reading and believing, H. C. Erik Midelfort; Chapter 9 Misunderstanding Foucault, Geoffrey Pearson; Chapter 10 Foucault's great confinement, Roy Porter; Chapter 11 Foucault, rhetoric and translation, Anthony Pugh; Chapter 12 Of madness itself, Nikolas Rose; Chapter 13 A failure to communicate?, Andrew Scull; Part 3 Review; Chapter 14 Rewriting the history of misreading, Colin Gordon; Chapter 15 Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization, Mark Erickson;