Rewriting the History of Madness

STILL, Arthur; VELODY, Irving. Rewriting the History of Madness - Studies in Foucault's `Histoire de la Folie'. London: Routledge, 1992

Já é conhecido do leitor familiarizado com os textos de Foucault que até agora, em língua inglesa, havia sido publicada uma versão de História da Loucura diminuída, intitulada Madness and Civilization. Uma tradução de Histoire de la Folie, entretanto, está para sair brevemente. Esse livro de STILL e VELODY pertence à espectativa dos leitores de língua inglesa que aguardam o impacto da nova tradução frente às incompletudes da antiga.

O livro todo circunda um comentário de Colin Gordon (Histoire de la Folie: a unknown book of Michel Foucault), que pode ser acessado gratuitamente (!) na página da edição.

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

Editor : Arthur Still, Irving Velody

Master eBook ISBN : 0-203-20827-7

No of pages : 240

eBook Price : £75.00

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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.