ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |26 pages
Reading Foucault
part |121 pages
Responses
chapter |9 pages
‘The lively sensibility of the Frenchman'
Some reflections on the place of France in Foucault's Histoire de la folie
chapter |14 pages
A failure to communicate?
On the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians
part |53 pages
Review
chapter |33 pages
Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization
A selective bibliography with critical notations
