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eBay Money Back Guarantee · Top Brands · Returns Made Easy · Fill Your Cart With ColorPopular Links: Hood · Science Fiction · Honda · Bethesda · Mazda · Giorgio Armani · Armor. A historical study of madness, folly, and unreason in the classical age, based on original documents and sources. The author explores the paradoxes, mechanisms, and classifications File Size: 6MB. A historical study of madness, folly, and unreason in the classical age, based on original documents and sources. The author explores the paradoxes, mechanisms, and classifications of madness as the negative of reason, and its manifestations in art, literature, and politics. There are two major poles to the Renaissance experience of madness: 1) as a portal to the terrifying natural powers of the night (Ren painting: Bruegel and Durer); 2) as the ironic counterpart to reason (humanist writers like Erasmus: In Praise of Folly. A historical study of madness and folly in the classical age, based on original documents and sources. The book explores how mental illness, unreason, and imagination were perceived, treated, and expressed in different social and cultural contexts. May 11, · Download or view the PDF file of Michel Foucault's book Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. The file was uploaded by Sorindanut in and has ocr text. A historical study of madness and folly in the classical age, based on original documents and sources. The book explores how mental illness, unreason, and imagination were perceived, treated, and expressed in different social and cultural contexts. Sep 21, · Madness and Civilization moves beyond concerns about marginalization and power to problematizing what has become self-evident in psychiatric knowledge and practice.
