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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810463603321

Titolo

Rewriting the history of madness : studies in Foucaults Histoire de la folie / / edited by Arthur Still and Irving Velody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992

ISBN

0-203-31441-7

1-280-32426-0

1-134-91970-0

9786610324262

0-203-20827-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StillArthur

VelodyIrving

Disciplina

616.89/009

Soggetti

Psychiatry - History

Mentally ill - Care - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Rewriting the history of madness: Studies in Foucault's Histoire de la folie; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I Reading Foucault; 1 Histoire de la folie: An unknown book by Michel Foucault; Part II Responses; 2 Foucault and the psychiatric practitioner; 3 Madness, medicine and the state; 4 The two readings of Histoire de la folie in France; 5 'The lively sensibility of theFrenchman': Some reflections on the place of France in Foucault's Histoire de la folie; 6 Foucault, history and madness; 7 Foucault, ambiguity and the rhetoric of historiography

8 Reading and believing: On the reappraisal of Michel Foucault9 Misunderstanding Foucault; 10 Foucault's great confinement; 11 Foucault, rhetoric and translation: Figures of madness; 12 Of madness itself: Histoire de la folie and the object of psychiatric history; 13 A failure to communicate?: On the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians; Part III Review; 14 Rewriting the history of misreading; 15 Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization: A selective bibliography with critical notations; Name index; Subject



index

Sommario/riassunto

Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the human sciences since his first book Madness and Civilization appeared in English. This title assesses the reactions to Madness and Civilization.