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When was Madness and Civilization first published?

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Which two French writers did Foucault cite as particular influences over Madness and Civilization?

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What form did Madness and Civilization originally take?

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With what striking image does the work begin?

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What are the three time periods that Foucault analyzes?

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Which element was particularly associated with madness in the Renaissance?

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What came before madness as a cultural "theme", according to Foucault?

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Which two Renaissance dramatists represent madness in a particularly important way?

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What is the seventeenth century for Foucault?

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10. Why is 1656 such an important date?

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What kind of power did the Hopital General represent?

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How did confinement have an economic element?

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What effect did confinement have on madness?

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What aspect of madness did confinement promote?

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What phenomenon in some ways makes madness "possible"?

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The classical period assumes a close relationship between madness and which other state, according to Foucault?

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Why is blindness important to any discussion of classical madness?

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Whose formula of doubt does Foucault analyze in Madness and Civilization?

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What are the two pairs of concepts that Foucault calls the "faces of madness"?

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Which two practitioners does Foucault see as central to the history of madness?

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What are the key theoretical techniques used to treat madness in the asylum?

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What are the features of the nineteenth century persona that emerges in the asylum?

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From where did the nineteenth century believe that madness arose?

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What did Freud do to the structures of the asylum?

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Which artists does Foucault feel particularly represent the theme of madness in modern society?

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