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Madness, Language, Literature

By Michel Foucault
Series: The Chicago Foucault Project
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Madness, Language, Literature by Michel Foucault explores the intricate relationship between insanity, discourse, and cultural expression. Foucault delves into how language has been used to define and sometimes confine mental aberration throughout history. He examines the portrayal of madness in literature, revealing the ways society interprets and engages with the concept of mental illness.
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Madness, Language, Literature

Collection of thirteen essays, for the most part unpublished.

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Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism.

Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less explicit in his later, more well-known writings. Collected here, these previously unpublished texts reveal a Foucault who undertakes an analysis of language and experience detached from their historical constraints.

Three issues predominate: the experience of madness across societies; madness and language in Artaud, Roussel, and Baroque theatre; and structuralist literary criticism. Not only do these texts pursue concepts unique to this period, such as the β€œextra-linguistic,” but they also reveal a far more complex relationship between structuralism and Foucault than has typically been acknowledged.

Series: The Chicago Foucault Project

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The book Madness, Language, Literature by Michel Foucault explores the intersections of language, literature, and madness, offering readers fresh insights into familiar Foucauldian themes. Judith Revel's introduction identifies notable differences in this work from Foucault's earlier writings, providing depth and nuance. The collection of essays, previously unpublished in some cases, is seen as both urgent and timeless, making important connections to literary theory, history, and philosophy, which continue to inspire and challenge contemporary thought.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226774831

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Contributors:

  • Translated by Robert Bononno
  • Edited by Daniele Lorenzini
  • Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud
  • Edited by Judith Revel

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 426g

Pages: 240

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Michel Foucault Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Series: The Chicago Foucault Project

About the Author

Michel FoucaultΒ (1926–84) was a French philosopher and historian who held the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the CollΓ¨ge de France. His many books in English includeΒ The Order of Things,Β Discipline and Punish,Β The History of Sexuality, andΒ β€œDiscourse and Truth” and β€œParrΔ“sia,” the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.Β Henri-Paul Fruchaud is an editor of Michel Foucault’s posthumous works. Daniele Lorenzini is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Judith Revel is professor of contemporary philosophy at Paris Nanterre University. Robert Bononno is a freelance translator who lives in New York.

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