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History of madness /
When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Fouca...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
c2006.
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| Summary: | When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world.
This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxix, 725 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-693) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203642600 (ebook) 0415277019 (alk. paper) 9780203642603 (ebook) 9780415277013 (alk. paper) 9780415477260 (pbk. : alk. paper) |