About this philosophy book
Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that "man"—man as a subject of scientific knowledge—is at best a recent invention, the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture. With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the he
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michel Foucault
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307819307
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Medical, Social Science, Psychology