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Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason by Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that'man'—man as a subject of scientific knowledge—is at best a recent invention, the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture.With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrariness of our received truths.
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- Author
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394740263
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.12 / 5 (6,220 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Histoire de la sexualité (Tome 2) - L'usage des plaisirs (1994)
- Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason (1988)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (2010)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (1990)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (2012)
- Histoire de la sexualité, I : La volonté de savoir (Tel) (2013)
- Le souci de soi (Histoire de la sexualité, 280) (2014)
- Foucault Michel the Order of Things (1990)
- Le souci de soi (Histoire de la sexualité, 280) (1984)
- Histoire de la sexualité (Tome 3) - Le souci de soi (Tel) (2014)
- L'usage des plaisirs (Histoire de la sexualité, II) (1976)
- Histoire de la sexualité - La volonté de savoir (T1) (1976)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (1988)
- Histoire de la sexualité (Tome 3) - Le souci de soi (1994)
- The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (1990)
- Histoire de la sexualité - Le souci de soi (T3) (1984)
- Histoire de la sexualité (Tome 1) - La volonté de savoir (2013)
- The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction Vol 1 (1978)
- Histoire de la sexualité (Tome 2) - L'usage des plaisirs (Tel) (2013)
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