History of Madness

The first English translation of one of the most famous and controversial works in the humanities and social sciences published in the last fifty years A key publicity title for 2006 that should be reviewed in several of the major papers, TLS, THES, LRB and more Foucault is a huge figure in Western intellectual and academic life and this is the book he is best known for The heavily abridged Routledge Classics edition is one of Routledge's bestsellers Includes a helpful foreword by Ian Hacking, a major Foucault scholar Stunning jacketed hardback with six superb black and white plates