by Michel Foucault · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817115599
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«Storia della follia nell'età classica» is the historical and philosophical essay by Michel Foucault, published by Rizzoli in paperback (576 pages, in Italian).
Foucault reconstructs the role of madness in the West from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution: reason and unreason became separated, and the exclusion and criminalization of difference led to confinement and modern psychiatry. Sade, Nietzsche, Van Gogh or Artaud illustrate madness as a revelation of the social order.
Work originally published in 1961 under the title Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique; Rizzoli edition of 1992 in the BUR Supersaggi collection (no. 59).
For readers of philosophy, history and sociology interested in power, social exclusion and the thought of Michel Foucault.
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.
