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to Unedited Philosophy Quotes and Ramblings about Intequinism.
Author: Michel
Foucault
Year: 1989
Title: Madness and Civilization
Publisher: Routledge
Place: London and New York
Edition: 2001 Classics
Reader: Mr. M.D. Pienaar
"What
madness is is a form of vision that destroys itself by its
own choice of oblivion in the face of existing forms of
social tactics and strategy. Madness, for instance, is a
matter of voicing the realization that I am (or you are)
Christ."[1]
"The
Greeks had a relation to something that they called υβρις. This relation was not merely
one of condemnation; the existence of Thrasymachus or of
Callicles suffices to prove it, even if their language has
reached us already enveloped in the reassuring dialectic of
Socrates. But the Greek Logos had no contrary."[2]
FOUCAULT,
M. 1989. Madness and
civilization. (London and New York: Routledge,
2001 Classic edition)
Cooper,
D. 2001. Introduction. (In FOUCAULT,
M. 1989. Madness and civilization,
pp.vii-ix. (London and New York: Routledge, 2001
Classic edition)