Ryan Arthur’s Reviews > History of Madness > Status Update
Ryan Arthur
is on page 22 of 778
Stultifera Navis: "But if knowledge is important for madness, it is not because madness might hold some vital secrets: on the contrary it is the punishment for useless, unregulated knowledge."
— Mar 23, 2023 06:05AM
Like flag
Ryan’s Previous Updates
Ryan Arthur
is on page 44 of 778
Stultifera Navis begins in the Middle Ages of Europe, where madness exists in darkness and akin to death, and transitions to the Renaissance, when madness becomes "part of the measures of reason." I found it intriguing that Foucault touches on how madness holds the extremes of reason, that it "hides and shows, speaks truth and lies, and is both shadow and light."
— Mar 23, 2023 03:26PM
