Someone was staring to read Folie et deraison: Histoire de la folie a l'age classique, so I am quite happy to start a thread on what the current Routeledge version claims to be "the most influential, and controversial text in this field during the last forty years." Having read and re-read the first three chapters several times without ever having got any further, this is a good opportunity to start over from my almost blunted purpose.
A Wikipedia summary to get you going. How does the impression on your mind of the summarised version differ from the experience of a reading of the original text, and do we in fact benefit from the time spent in reading this, as opposed to just Googling the summary and going for a run instead?
