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1. Michel , Foucault

History of Madness

When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge 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 only English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices. Shifting deftly from Descartes to the founding of the Hôpital Général in Paris and early psychiatry, Foucault explores not only on scientific and medical analyses of madness, but also the philosophical and cultural values attached to the mad. He also urges us to recognize the creative and liberating forces that madness represents, brilliantly drawing on examples from Goya, Nietzsche, Van Gogh and Artaud. The History of Madness is an inspiring and classic work that challenges us to understand madness, reason and power and the forces that shape them. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new introductory Post scriptum by Jean Khalfa and, published here for the first time in English, a lecture Foucault delivered in 1970 at the University of Tokyo, where he summarizes some of the principal themes in this book. It is translated by Jean Khalfa and Joshua Heath.

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Politics, Philosophy, Culture

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault, many of which are hard to find. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music, and the power of art while also examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness, and the Iranian Revolution. Taken together, the book provides a perfect companion to Foucault's best-known works, offering a fascinating insight into the mind and work of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial thinkers. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Lawrence D. Kritzman.

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Nietzsche. Corsi, conferenze e appunti

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Language, Madness, and Desire

As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire.The associations between madness and language - and madness and silence - preoccupy Foucault in two 1963 radio broadcasts, presented here, in which he ranges among literary examples from Cervantes and Shakespeare to Diderot, before taking up questions about Artaud's literary correspondence, 'lettres de cachet', and the materiality of language. In his lectures on the relations among language, the literary work, and literature, he discusses Joyce, Proust, Chateaubriand, Racine, and Corneille, as well as the linguist Roman Jakobson. What we know as literature, Foucault contends, begins with the Marquis de Sade, to whose writing - particularly La Nouvelle Justine and Juliette - he devotes a full two-part lecture series focusing on notions of literary self-consciousness.This volume makes clear the importance of literature to Foucault's thought and it is an indispensable text for anyone interested in his work and intellectual development.

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Speech Begins After Death

In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial interview survived and is published here. In this brief and lively exchange, Foucault reflects on how he approached the written word throughout his life, from his school days to his discovery of the pleasure of writing.Wide ranging, characteristically insightful, and unexpectedly autobiographical, the discussion sheds light on Foucault's intellectual development, his aims as a writer, his clinical methodology ("let's say I'm a diagnostician"), and his interest in other authors, including Raymond Roussel and Antonin Artaud. Foucault discloses, in ways he never had previously, details about his home life, his family history, and the profound sense of obligation he feels to the act of writing.Speech Begins after Death shows Foucault adopting a new language, an innovative autobiographical communication that is neither conversation nor monologue, and is one of his most personal statements about his life and writing.

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Binswanger e l'analisi esistenziale

Nel 1954 viene pubblicata la traduzione francese di "Traum und Existenz" dello psicologo e psichiatra svizzero Ludwig Binswanger, accompagnata da un'introduzione di Michel Foucault. In queste pagine il filosofo annunciava il progetto di una "torsione della fenomenologia verso l'antropologia" per analizzare "quali sono stati i fondamenti offerti alla riflessione concreta sull'uomo". Foucault non pubblicò mai il libro, ma conservò il manoscritto qui presentato. In queste pagine compiva un esame sistematico della Daseinsanalyse, confrontandola con gli approcci della psichiatria, della psicoanalisi e della fenomenologia, e lodandone l'ambizione di comprendere la malattia mentale. Questo approccio lo accompagnava nella sua ricerca di "qualcosa di diverso dalle griglie tradizionali dello sguardo psichiatrico", un "contrappeso"; tuttavia il filosofo francese ne segnalava già le ambiguità e le debolezze, in particolare una deriva verso la speculazione metafisica che lo allontanava dall'"uomo concreto". Assistiamo, in effetti, a un duplice abbandono: prima della psichiatria e poi della stessa analisi esistenziale, che porterà presto alla prospettiva radicalmente nuova della Storia della follia nell'età classica. Il segno di quest'opera, tuttavia, non sarebbe scomparso. Nel 1984 Michel Foucault presentò infatti la sua Storia della sessualità nei seguenti termini: "Studiare le forme di esperienza in questo modo, nella loro storia, è un tema che mi è venuto da un progetto più antico: quello di utilizzare i metodi dell'analisi esistenziale nel campo della psichiatria e della malattia mentale". Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.