Madness and Civilization

Madness and Civilization
	The Librairie Plon edition
Author	Michel Foucault
Original title	Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique
Translator	Richard Howard (abridged edition); Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (unabridged edition)
Country	France
Language	French
Subject	Insanity
Published	1961 (Librairie Plon, in French); 1964 (in English);
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	299 (Vintage edition); 725 (unabridged edition)
ISBN	0-679-72110-X (Vintage edition); 0-415-27701-9 (unabridged edition)

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (French: Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, 1961)^[i] is an examination by Michel Foucault of the evolution of the meaning of madness in the cultures and laws, politics, philosophy, and medicine of Europe—from the Middle Ages until the end of the 18th century—and a critique of the idea of history and of the historical method.

Although he uses the language of phenomenology to describe the influence of social structures in the history of the Othering of insane people from society, Madness and Civilization is Foucault's philosophic progress from phenomenology toward something like structuralism (a label Foucault himself always adamantly rejected).^[1]

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^ Khalfa J. (2009). Introduction. History of Madness. By Foucault M. Khalfa J. (ed.). Translated by Murphy J.; Khalfa J. New York: Routledge. pp. xiiv–xxv. ISBN 978-0-415-47726-0.

[Khalfa-2] Khalfa J. (2009). Introduction. History of Madness. By Foucault M. Khalfa J. (ed.). Translated by Murphy J.; Khalfa J. New York: Routledge. pp. xiiv–xxv. ISBN 978-0-415-47726-0.

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