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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... meaning only beyond the division? A realm, no doubt, where what is in question is the limits rather than the identity of a culture. The classical period—from Willis to Pinel, from the frenzies of Racine's Oreste to Sade's Juliette and ...
... meaning only beyond the division? A realm, no doubt, where what is in question is the limits rather than the identity of a culture. The classical period—from Willis to Pinel, from the frenzies of Racine's Oreste to Sade's Juliette and ...
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... meanings, a structure is forming which does not resolve the ambiguity but determines it. It is this structure which accounts for the transition from the medieval and humanist experience of madness to our own experience, which confines ...
... meanings, a structure is forming which does not resolve the ambiguity but determines it. It is this structure which accounts for the transition from the medieval and humanist experience of madness to our own experience, which confines ...
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... meaning of his exclusion, the social importance of that insistent and fearful figure which was not driven off without first being inscribed within a sacred circle. If the leper was removed from the world, and from the community of the ...
... meaning of his exclusion, the social importance of that insistent and fearful figure which was not driven off without first being inscribed within a sacred circle. If the leper was removed from the world, and from the community of the ...
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... meaning and in a very different culture, the forms would remain—essentially that major form of a rigorous division which is social exclusion but spiritual reintegration. Something new appears in the imaginary landscape of the ...
... meaning and in a very different culture, the forms would remain—essentially that major form of a rigorous division which is social exclusion but spiritual reintegration. Something new appears in the imaginary landscape of the ...
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... the cities of Europe must have seen these “ships of fools” approaching their harbors. It is not easy to discover the exact meaning of this custom. One might suppose it was a general means of extradition (3) MADNESS 8: CIVILIZATION.
... the cities of Europe must have seen these “ships of fools” approaching their harbors. It is not easy to discover the exact meaning of this custom. One might suppose it was a general means of extradition (3) MADNESS 8: CIVILIZATION.
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