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eBay Money Back Guarantee · Top Brands · Returns Made Easy · Fill Your Cart With ColorPopular Links: Hood · Science Fiction · Honda · Bethesda · Mazda · Giorgio Armani · Armor. A historical study of madness, folly, and unreason in the classical age, based on original documents and sources. The author explores the paradoxes, mechanisms, and classifications File Size: 6MB. Sep 21, · Madness and Civilization moves beyond concerns about marginalization and power to problematizing what has become self-evident in psychiatric knowledge and practice. A historical study of madness and folly in the classical age, based on original documents and sources. The book explores how mental illness, unreason, and imagination were perceived, treated, and expressed in different social and cultural contexts. There are two major poles to the Renaissance experience of madness: 1) as a portal to the terrifying natural powers of the night (Ren painting: Bruegel and Durer); 2) as the ironic counterpart to reason (humanist writers like Erasmus: In Praise of Folly. May 11, · Download or view the PDF file of Michel Foucault's book Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. The file was uploaded by Sorindanut in and has ocr text. There are two major poles to the Renaissance experience of madness: 1) as a portal to the terrifying natural powers of the night (Ren painting: Bruegel and Durer); 2) as the ironic counterpart to reason (humanist writers like Erasmus: In Praise of Folly. Andrew Scull's 'Madness in Civilization' offers a sweeping historical account of the evolving relationship between Western civilization and madness, emphasizing its integral role in society rather than placing it outside the boundaries of civilization.