Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

ISBN-13:	9780679721109
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/28/1988
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	139,055
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.56(d)

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.