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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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Madness and Civilization is a 1964 abridged edition of French philosopher Michel Foucault's. It is an examination of the evolving relationship between madness and European culture, law, politics, philosophy and medicine from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, and a critique of historical method and the idea of history. It marks a turning in Foucault's thought away from phenomenology toward structuralism: though he uses the language of phenomenology to describe an evolving experience of "the other" as mad, he attributes this evolution to the influence of specific powerful social structures.
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