Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of ReasonPantheon Books, 1965 - 299 Seiten In recent years the question of madness and how to define it has become the centre of a great deal of discussion. This is the question the distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer by studying madness from 1500 to 1800 - from the Middle Ages when insanity was considered part of everyday life and fools and madmen walked the streets, to the point when these people began to be considered a threat, asylums were built for the first time, and a wall was erected between the insane and the rest of humanity. |
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... language , antedating that of science , begin the dialogue of their breach , testifying in a fugitive way that they still speak to each other . Here madness and non - madness , reason and non - reason are inextricably involved ...
... language , antedating that of science , begin the dialogue of their breach , testifying in a fugitive way that they still speak to each other . Here madness and non - madness , reason and non - reason are inextricably involved ...
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... language , while vertigo affords the delirious affirmation that the world is real- ly " turning around . " Such delirium is a necessary and suffi- cient reason for a disease to be called madness . 4. Language is the first and last ...
... language , while vertigo affords the delirious affirmation that the world is real- ly " turning around . " Such delirium is a necessary and suffi- cient reason for a disease to be called madness . 4. Language is the first and last ...
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... language which exhausted itself in the silence of others ; the entire show of presumption and outrage was re- placed by indifference . Henceforth , more genuinely confined than he could have been in a dungeon and chains , a prisoner of ...
... language which exhausted itself in the silence of others ; the entire show of presumption and outrage was re- placed by indifference . Henceforth , more genuinely confined than he could have been in a dungeon and chains , a prisoner of ...
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STULTIFERA NAVIS | 15 |
THE GREAT CONFINEMENT | 42 |
THE INSANE | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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agitation animal appears asylum become Bicêtre body brain cause Charité classical period cold constitutes contrary convulsions cure death delirious delirium Descartes disease disorder doubtless dream effect eighteenth century Encyclopédie entire essential evil experience of madness fact fear fibers frenzy hallucinations heat Hieronymus Bosch Hôpital Général hospital houses of confinement human humors hypochondria hysteria ideas idleness illusion imagination immediate insane labor language lazar houses leprosy lettres de cachet liberty linked longer madman mania manifest meaning melancholia melancholic ment mind moral movement nature nerves nervous ness night non-being object observation organized Paris passion patient Philippe Pinel Pinel poverty prisoners punishment qualities reason relation religion Renaissance rigor Salpêtrière Samuel Tuke scandal secret sensibility seventeenth century Ship of Fools sion social soul spirits strange sufferer symbolic symptoms theme therapeutics things tion transgression truth Tuke unity unreason values vapors violence wisdom