Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

by M. Foucault, Kenneth A. Loparo (Translator), A. Davidson (Editor)

Overview

In this addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403986511
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/14/2008
Series:	Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Coll ge de France
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Translator's Note 7 November 1973 14 November 1973 21 November 1973 28 November 1973 5 December 1973 12 December 1973 19 December 1973 9 January 1974 16 January 1974 23 January 1974 30 January 1974 6 February 1974 Course Summary Course Context Index of Notions Index of Names Index of Places

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Michel Foucault:

"[Foucault] must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists." - The New York Times Book Review

"Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture." - The Nation

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