Episode 84
Michel Foucault's "Madness & Civilization" (Part 1/2)
September 21, 20191h 5m
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Show Notes
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In this episode, I take a stab at one of Foucault's first texts, "Madness & Civilization." In it he tries to disturb everything we know about madness and its treatment--the positivist assumptions about its coming into realization; the treatments believed to be therapeutic; and the influences behind the construction of asylums.