zero_call comments on Book Recommendations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: teageegeepea 10 August 2010 03:46:34AM 2 points [-]

Some claims that Foucault's "Madness and Civilization" was a terrible example of scholarship from the mindhacks blog: http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/fifty-years-of-madness-and-civilisation/ http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/a-history-of-the-history-of-madness/

Comment author: zero_call 10 August 2010 10:25:09PM -2 points [-]

That's funny. Well, perhaps Foucault may not have been very accurate -- I'm not at all qualified to comment. But the book still stands as an amazing work of intellectual writing.