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Can I read Madness and Civilization : A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason on EtoBox?
Madness and Civilization : A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Madness and Civilization : A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason about?
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Who reads Madness and Civilization : A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michel Foucault
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Published
- 1965
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307833105
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Psychology, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Vintage) (2013)
- Foucault Michel the Order of Things (1990)
- Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason (1988)
- Madness and Civilization : A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (2013)
- Madness and Civilization : A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1961)