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sltah's review
4.0
Became lost starting from the latter half of the penultimate chapter but will reread after familiarizing myself with the artists & authors Foucault wildly cited; a favorite overall
meri_uwu's review
4.0
This is an entertaining book and illustrated quite strongly technologies of control how we create systems that will operate in the subconsciousness to annihilate resistances. A strong critique of modernism and illustration of how white supremacy is the underlying force under these systems.
junyan's review against another edition
3.0
“事物本身背负起越来越多的属性、标志和隐喻，以致最终丧失了自身的形式。意义不再能被直接的直觉解读，形象不在表明自身。”裂痕变宽了。是理性还是桎梏？将疯癫从神秘拉入道德责任体系，剔除外界惩罚，转为自我惩罚以及无限接近惩罚的审判，这就是所谓的“文明的进步”。为了与人类自我赞颂的理性相融合相适应，疯人不得不变成理性人严重典型的陌生人藏匿自己的奇特性。得到理性之地的认可与接纳就是屈服于匿名状态，并时时刻刻behave acceptably，将自己嵌套入能被接受的苛刻形态。Terror and unnecessary norms conquer people of dependence.
lakeofstars's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
not my favorite of his works, but still valuable and interesting
casparb's review against another edition
3.0
I think Foucault couldn’t write a bad book. This is his first and was oddly familiar almost the entire time for me. That said, I don’t think it’s the best intro to his writings - go for D&P there.
Speaking of! There’s a lot in Madness&Civ that Foucault returns to in D&P. The final chapter on the Birth of the Asylum really brings this to the fore, so I’m sure there’s plenty scholarship on his analytical development. Curious about coming back to the Derrida essay on this in Writing & Difference.
I’ve seen this one referred to as one of Foucault’s more difficult books. As I’ve mentioned before, he’s a real delight to read, so perhaps describing it as a difficult read is taken with salt. There’s a long midsection which spent what seemed to me an unnecessary amount of time discussing humorism, but that was quite happily made up for by the brilliant final chapter and the even better conclusion, which wanders into ideas about madness and art. Madness is the absence of art.
A soft recommend- come to it after something else from the great MF
Speaking of! There’s a lot in Madness&Civ that Foucault returns to in D&P. The final chapter on the Birth of the Asylum really brings this to the fore, so I’m sure there’s plenty scholarship on his analytical development. Curious about coming back to the Derrida essay on this in Writing & Difference.
I’ve seen this one referred to as one of Foucault’s more difficult books. As I’ve mentioned before, he’s a real delight to read, so perhaps describing it as a difficult read is taken with salt. There’s a long midsection which spent what seemed to me an unnecessary amount of time discussing humorism, but that was quite happily made up for by the brilliant final chapter and the even better conclusion, which wanders into ideas about madness and art. Madness is the absence of art.
A soft recommend- come to it after something else from the great MF