“I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
“In writing a history of madness, Foucault has attempted-and this is the greatest merit, but also the very infeasibility of his book0to write a history of madness itself. Itself. Of madness itself. That is by letting madness speak for itself.”
Cogito and The History of Madness, p.37 (Routledge classics edition)
Writing and Difference (1978)
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