Tag: Foucault

• Forgetting Foucault

  

  Over recent weeks I have chanced upon a few biographical articles on Michel Foucault. One was an account of Foucault’s use of LSD in Death Valley on a road trip with some fellow academics in the 1970s. Another was speculation that in the late 1970s Foucault was too close to neo-liberal ideas that would attack […]

  Jeff Rich

  November 26, 2017

  culture, history, Personal story

  Foucault, Nietzsche, philosophy, politics, writing

• Madness & History

  I am reading Andrew Scull’s Madness in Civilization: a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine (Thames & Hudson, 2015). The title is a wink to the English translation of Foucault’s Folie et Déraison, that is Madness & Civilization: a History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. […]

  Jeff Rich

  July 10, 2016

  culture, history, Personal story

  Foucault, history, madness, Ship of Fools