History of Madness Condition:Well Read '"Practically every paragraph has a

'"Practically every paragraph has a line or two that demands to be read aloud to the mirror

Martin Hammond's new translation fully expresses the intimacy and eloquence of the original work

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which places particular emphasis on his brilliant generalship and leadership in World War Two

Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse

History of Madness Condition:Well Read '"Practically every paragraph has aWhen it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a thirty four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world. This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all