Volume 7, Number 8 · November 17, 1966

In Praise of Folly

By Steven Marcus
Madness and Civilization
by Michael Foucault, translated by Richard Howard

Pantheon, 299 pp., $5.95

(The following essay is reprinted from the last issue of The New York Review, where it appeared with certain passages out of order.)



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