Madness, language, literature / Michel Foucault ; translated by Robert Bononno ; edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Judith Revel ; introduction by Judith Revel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984, author.

Contributor:

Lorenzini, Daniele, editor.

Fruchaud, Henri-Paul, editor.

Bononno, Robert, translator.

Revel, Judith, writer of introduction.

Series:

The Chicago Foucault Project Series

The Chicago Foucault Project

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness in literature.

Mental illness--Philosophy.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : The University of Chicago Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less explicit in his later, more well-known writings. Collected here, these previously unpublished texts reveal a Foucault who undertakes an analysis of language and experience detached from their historical constraints. Three issues predominate: the experience of madness across societies; madness and language in Artaud, Roussel, and Baroque theater; and structuralist literary criticism. Not only do these texts pursue concepts unique to this period such as the "extra-linguistic," but they also reveal a far more complex relationship between structuralism and Foucault than has typically been acknowledged.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Note on the Text

Introduction

Lectures and Writings on Madness, Language, and Literature

1 MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION

2 MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION Presentation Given at the Club Tahar Haddad, Tunis, April 1967

3 MADNESS AND SOCIETY

4 LITERATURE AND MADNESS Madness in Baroque Theater and the Theater of Artaud

5 LITERATURE AND MADNESS Madness in the Work of Raymond Roussel

6 PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE Experience in Bataille

7 THE NEW METHODS OF LITERARY ANALYSIS

8 LITERARY ANALYSIS

9 STRUCTURALISM AND LITERARY ANALYSIS Presentation Given at the Club Tahar Haddad, Tunis, February 4, 1967

10 [THE EXTRALINGUISTIC AND LITERATURE]

11 LITERARY ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURALISM

12 BOUVARD AND PÉCUCHET The Two Temptations

13 THE SEARCH FOR THE ABSOLUTE

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-77497-X

OCLC:

1369644344