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"How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France. Political thinkers reasoned that if government was to rest in the hands of individuals, then measures should be taken to understand the...

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1. Verfasser: Gauchet, Marcel
Weitere Verfasser: Swain, Gladys, 1945-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
French
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Schriftenreihe:New French thought.
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Zusammenfassung:"How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France. Political thinkers reasoned that if government was to rest in the hands of individuals, then measures should be taken to understand the deepest reaches of the self, including the state of madness. Marcel Gauchet and Gladys Swain maintain that the asylum originally embodied the revolutionary hope of curing all the insane by saving the glimmer of sanity left in them. Their analysis of why this utopian vision failed ultimately constitutes both a powerful argument for liberalism and a direct challenge to Michel Foucault's indictment of liberal institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxvi, 323 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-315) and index.
ISBN:1400811708
9781400811700
9781400822874
1400822874

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