ABSTRACT
Colin Gordon is entirely convincing in arguing that Michel Foucault’s Histoire de la folie deserves to be translated in its entirety and that it is a book that is largely unread even if the reader’s eyes have in fact passed over the 600+ pages of the French edition of either 1961 or 1972. In fact, I would be tempted to argue that Histoire de la folie is in important ways Foucault’s most impressive book – perhaps his most ambitious venture in writing.
