Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault
First American edition, first printing of Foucault's first major work, an examination of the evolving meaning of madness in European culture, law, politics, philosophy and medicine from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, and a critique of historical method and the idea of history.
New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1965. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding is sturdy, slight lean to spine. Minimal wear to boards, internally clean with no markings. Jacket shows some general shelfwear with some chipping to extremities, toning, faint creasing to spine, protected in archival mylar. Scarce.