by Michel Foucault · Fondo de Cultura Económica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789681602666
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«Historia de la locura en la época clásica, I» is Michel Foucault's essay, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in paperback (576 pages).
Foucault analyses how Western society has perceived and treated madness, and how that history serves to construct a history of reason. The work covers figures such as Rameau's nephew, Nietzsche, Nerval and Artaud, and questions the Reason-Unreason pair and the presuppositions of Western power and wisdom.
First published in 1967, it belongs to the Breviarios collection.
Aimed at students and readers interested in philosophy, cultural history and critical thought.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
