Rewriting the History of Madness

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Rewriting the History of Madness -Studies in Foucault's `Histoire de la Folie'

Editor : Arthur Still, Irving Velody

Master eBook ISBN10 : 0-203-20827-7

Master eBook ISBN13 : 978-0-203-20827-4

No of pages : 240

eBook Price : £90
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Originally Published : 8 Oct 1992

Michel Foucault has had an extraordinary impact on writers in the human sciences since his first book Madness and Civilization appeared in English. When it appeared in Britain in 1967 it was read as part of the anti-psychiatry movement of the time. Only retrospectively has it been seen as the start of a profoundly original and influential theory on the nature of knowledge and power.
Rewriting the History of Madness is a collection of essays centered around a provocative paper by Colin Gordon, which claims that major critics have failed to take note of the depth of Foucault's researches because of their excessive dependence on the English translation of the abridged 1965 edition. The collection takes Gordon's essay as a starting point, but ranges widely in drawing out the significance of Foucault's writings for modern thought in a variety of disciplines.
With its annotated bibliography of anglophone reactions to Madness and Civilization, this book provides an excellent and lively approach to the literature on Foucault, and is an exciting assessment of the implications of his work in the history of madness and the historiography of the human sciences.

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Table of contents : Preface, Editors' Introduction, Reading Foucault 1. Histoire de la Folie: an unknown book by Michel Foucault Colin Gordon, Responses 2. Foucault and the Psychiatric Practitioner Peter Barham 3. Madness, Medicine and the State Paul Bove 4. The Two Readings of Histoire de la Folie in France Robert Castel 5. `The Lively sensibility of the Frenchman': some reflections on the place of France in Foucault's Histoire de la FolieJan Goldstein 6. Foucault, History and Madness Dominick La Capra 7. Foucault, Ambiguity, and the Rhetoric of Historiography Allan Megill 8. Reading and Believing: on the reappraisal of Michel Foucault H.C. Erik Midelfort 9. Misuderstanding Foucault Geoffrey Pearson 10. Foucault's Great Confinement Roy Porter 11. Foucault, Rhetoric and Translation: Figures of Madness Anthony Pugh 12. Of Madness Itself: Histoire de la Folie and the object of psychiatric history Nikolas Rose 13. A Failure to Communicate? On the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la Folie by Anglo-American Historians Andrew Scull, Review 14. Rewriting the History of Misreadiing Colin Gordon 15. Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization: A Selective Bibliography with Critical Notations Mark Erickson, Notes on Contributors, Index