Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of ReasonKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 30.01.2013 - 320 Seiten 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. |
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... . The end of the Middle Ages emphasized the comic, but as often the tragic aspect of madness, as in Tristan and Iseult, for example. The Renaissance, with Erasmus's Praise of Folly, demonstrated how fascinating imagination and some (v)
... . The end of the Middle Ages emphasized the comic, but as often the tragic aspect of madness, as in Tristan and Iseult, for example. The Renaissance, with Erasmus's Praise of Folly, demonstrated how fascinating imagination and some (v)
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... Renaissance men found itthey painted it, praised it, sang about it-it also heralded for them death of the body by picturing death of the mind. Nothing is more illuminating than to follow with M. Foucault the many threads which are woven ...
... Renaissance men found itthey painted it, praised it, sang about it-it also heralded for them death of the body by picturing death of the mind. Nothing is more illuminating than to follow with M. Foucault the many threads which are woven ...
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... Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was a dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis ...
... Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was a dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis ...
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... Renaissance; soon it will occupy a privileged place there: the Ship of Fools, a strange “drunken boat” that glides along the calm rivers of the Rhineland and the Flemish canals. The Narrenschifi, of course, is a literary composidon ...
... Renaissance; soon it will occupy a privileged place there: the Ship of Fools, a strange “drunken boat” that glides along the calm rivers of the Rhineland and the Flemish canals. The Narrenschifi, of course, is a literary composidon ...
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... Renaissance a place of detention reserved for the insane; there was for example the Chiitelet of Melun or the famous Tour aux Fous in Caen; there were the numberless Narrturmer of Germany, like the gates of Liibeck or the jungpfer of ...
... Renaissance a place of detention reserved for the insane; there was for example the Chiitelet of Melun or the famous Tour aux Fous in Caen; there were the numberless Narrturmer of Germany, like the gates of Liibeck or the jungpfer of ...
Inhalt
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The Great C onflnement | 38 |
The Insane | 65 |
Passion and Delirium | 87 |
Aspects of Madness I 17 | 119 |
Doctors and Patients | 161 |
The Great Fear | 201 |
The New Division 22 I | 231 |
The Birth of the Asylum | 241 |
Conclusion | 279 |
N ates | 291 |
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1988 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
agitation appears asylum become Bicétre body brain cause Charité classical period confined constitutes contrary cure death defined definition delirium disease disorder doubtless dream effect eighteenth century Encyclopédie entire evil experience of madness fact fear fibers fifteenth century figures finally find first fixed fluids Folly frenzy hallucinations Hieronymus Bosch Hopital Général hospital houses of confinement human humors hypochondria hysteria ical ideas illusion imagination immediate insane labor language lazar houses leprosy lettres de cachet liberty linked longer madman man’s mania manifest meaning melan melancholia melancholic ment mind moral movement nature nerves nervous ness night non-being observation organized paradox Paris passion patient Philippe Pinel physician Pinel poverty prisoners punishment qualities reason relation religion Renaissance rigor Samuel Tuke scandal secret sensibility seventeenth century Ship of Fools significance social soul strange sufferer symbolic symptoms theme therapeutics things tion transgression truth Tuke tury unity unreason vapors violence