"Confined in the ship, from which it is impossible to escape, the madman is confined to the thousand branches of the river, the thousand paths of the sea, to this great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of the most free, the most open of roads: chained solidly to an infinite crossroads."
--from MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
--from MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad?
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