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 							"Madness and Civilization", which was first published in 1959, was the first major work of the cultural critic
and maverick structuralist Foucault, and it eloquently and stylishly establishes the main themes, (namely, power,
knowledge, confinement) of his later works. Foucault, in his brilliant and forceful exposition, traces the codes or
"epistemes" responsible for the shaping of madness from the Renaissance and up to the late nineteenth century. He charts
the history of insanity from it being considered as a virtually harmless "wisdom of folly", to it being considered as a
disease in the age of confinement and the psychiatric clinic. Drawing on several important representations of madness in
culture, which include the Ship of Fools of Jerome Bosch, and "The Disparates" of Goya, as well as the fates of Van
Gogh, Nietzsche, Nerval and Artuad in the modern era, he "deconstructs" the concept of "reason" itself, by placing it in
an inverse relation to supposedly "mad" experience. He asks the fundamental, and highly philosophical, question of "what
does it mean to be mad, and what is the qualitative distinction between 'sanity' and 'insanity'?" This leads him to make
the extraordinary claim that the "pathologisation" of madness, its treatment as a disease, is something approximating a
disease of the modern era itself. Madness represents a moment of rupture, whose suppression is an attempt to avoid
something mysterious, unseizable and dangerous within our own selves. In his examination of the history of confinement,
and the supposed devastation that it has caused, Foucault is not trying (as his critics have alleged) to promote
insanity in a bid to transgress social modes and conventional wisdom. Rather, he is attempting nothing else than a
sociology of madness, by seeing how it arose in the context of modernity, with its work ethic, industrialization, and
its expansion of business enterprise, imperatives which entailed the exclusion of marginal and supposedly "deviant"
behavior. Written with considerable flair and panache, the book is highly opaque, relying much on paradox, wordplay,
discontinuity and the need to undermine the rigor and consistency of "reasoned" discourse, which Foucault charges of
embedding dangerous authoritarian implications. The obscurity and complexity of his style also illustrates the very
pressing difficulty of trying to express any certain or objective truth about reality. The translation of Richard
Howard, however, is the superior version, as it retains much of the impact of Foucault's style. 						

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