Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Madness and Civilization

A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault,
Richard Howard
Richard Howard(Translator)
1961 • 310 pages

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This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines. Foucault's analysis of psychology is a devastating critique of the common understanding of insanity.

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