Quotes by Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself? — Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself? — Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence.... — Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence.... — Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather — Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather — Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes — Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes — Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason