Foucault: a Select Bibliography
Discover Foucault's intellectual world with this curated select bibliography. Explore key works like Madness and Civilization, alongside Maurice Blanchot's Death Sentence, in this essential reading list on philosophy, history, and critical theory.
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Madness and Civilization
by Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
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I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother--
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Death Sentence
by Maurice Blanchot
A man finds himself witnessing the death of a young female friend. Years later, he is overcome by the suspicion that his current lover is the deceased friend--come back from the dead?
