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1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) |
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Histoire de la folie : an unknown book by Michel Foucault / Colin Gordon -- Foucault and the psychiatric practitioner / Peter Barham -- Madness, medicine, and the state / Paul Bové -- The two readings of Histoire de la folie in France / Robert Castel -- 'The lively sensibility of the Frenchman' : some reflections on the place of France in Foucault's Histoire de la folie / Jan Goldstein -- Foucault, history and madness / Dominick LaCapra -- Foucault, ambiguity and the rhetoric of historiography / Allan Megill -- Reading and believing : on the reappraisal of Michel Foucault / H.C. Erik Midelfort -- Misunderstanding Foucault / Geoffrey Pearson -- Foucault's great confinement / Roy Porter -- Foucault, rhetoric and translation : figures of madness / Anthony Pugh -- Of madness itself : Histoire de la folie and the object of psychiatric history / Nikolas Rose |
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A failure to communicate? : on the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians / Andrew Scull -- Rewriting the history of misreading / Colin Gordon -- Michel Foucault's Madness and civilization : a selective bibliography with critical notations / Mark Erickson |
| Summary |
Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the human sciences since his first book Madness and Civilization appeared in English. When it appeared in Britain in 1967 it was read as part of the anti-psychiatry movement of the time. Only retrospectively has it been seen as the start of a profoundly original and influential theory on the nature of knowledge and power. Rewriting the History of Madness is a collection of essays centred around a provocative paper by Colin Gordon, which claims that major critics have failed to take note of the depth of Foucault's researches because of their excessive dependence on the English translation of the abridged 1965 edition. The chapters that follow take Gordon's essay as a starting-point, but range widely in drawing out the significance of Foucault's writings for modern thought in a variety of disciplines. With its annotated bibliography of anglophone reactions to Madness and Civilization, this book provides an excellent and lively approach to the literature on Foucault, and is an exciting assessment of the implications of his work in the history of madness and the historiography of the human sciences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Folie et déraison.
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| SUBJECT |
Foucault, Michel Folie et déraison |
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Folie et déraison (Foucault, Michel) fast |
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Psychiatry -- History
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Mentally ill -- Care -- History
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Mental Disorders -- history
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Psychiatry -- history
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
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Mentally ill -- Care
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Psychiatry
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Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique (Foucault)
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Psychische stoornissen.
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Geschiedschrijving.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Still, Arthur.
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Velody, Irving.
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| LC no. |
91043296 |
| ISBN |
9781134919703 |
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1134919700 |
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0203208277 |
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9780203208274 |
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