Foucault: Madness and Civilization Language Arts & Disciplines This translation by Walter Kaufmann

This translation by Walter Kaufmann has become the standard one

Yet with the Great War on the horizon and the unexpected death of one of their own

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stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear

Foucault: Madness and Civilization Language Arts & Disciplines This translation by Walter KaufmannMichel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.