Some claims that Foucault’s “Madness and Civilization” was a terrible example of scholarship from the mindhacks blog: http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/fifty-years-of-madness-and-civilisation/ http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/a-history-of-the-history-of-madness/
That’s funny. Well, perhaps Foucault may not have been very accurate—I’m not at all qualified to comment. But the book still stands as an amazing work of intellectual writing.
Some claims that Foucault’s “Madness and Civilization” was a terrible example of scholarship from the mindhacks blog: http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/fifty-years-of-madness-and-civilisation/ http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/a-history-of-the-history-of-madness/
That’s funny. Well, perhaps Foucault may not have been very accurate—I’m not at all qualified to comment. But the book still stands as an amazing work of intellectual writing.