The History of Reason in the Age of Madness: Foucault’s Enlightenment and a Radical Critique of Psychiatry
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0732VD51W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 198 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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It successfully challenges the still prevalent view that Foucault's thinking resolutely opposes these movements, cogently arguing that such a reductive view would contradict one of the basic aims of Foucault's writings which is to expose the ambiguity of all phenomena, their susceptibility to ongoing critique, modification and radical transformation. Grounded in a deep knowledge of Foucault's oeuvre, The History of Reason in the Age of Madness establishes remarkable continuity from his early, under discussed, Introduction to Kant's Anthropology to his final articles on the Enlightenment. In addition to seriously advancing our comprehension of major works such as the History of Madness John Il
Iliopoulos argues that Foucault's critique foregrounds this anthropological problematic as indispensable for psychiatry, encouraging psychiatrists to become aware of the epistemological limitations of their practice, and also to review the ethical and political issues which madness introduces into the apparent neutrality of current psychiatric discourse.. Following Foucault's adoption of 'limit attitude', which investigates the limits of our thinking as points of disruption and renewal of established frames of reference, this book dispels the widely accepted belief that psychiatry represents the triumph of ration
John Iliopoulos is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Researcher at the Centre for Philosophy and Psychiatry, University of Athens, Greece.