Madness and Civilization

This book is the most well-known work of Foucault in the Chinese world, and has sold more than 100,000 copies since its publication in 1999.
Roland Barthes said this work is a cleansing and questioning of knowledge. It returns a fragment of "nature" to history and transforms madness, transforming what we consider a medical phenomenon into a civilizational phenomenon. In reality, Foucault never defined madness; madness is not an object of knowledge; its history needs to be rediscovered; it can be said to be nothing more than this knowledge itself; madness is not a disease but a sense of alienation that changes over time. Foucault never considered madness a functional reality; for him, it was simply the effect of the combination of rationality and irrationality, of the observer and the observed.

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