This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines. Foucault's anal

Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyda

In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America’s problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michae

In recent years the question of madness and how to define it has become the centre of a great deal of discussion. This is the question the distinguished French