Foucault: Madness and Civilization Language Arts & Disciplines and Stillness is the Key--captivated

and Stillness is the Key--captivated professional athletes

Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If

Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving

On his travels he ponders Thoreau's eager seclusion in Walden Woods

Foucault: Madness and Civilization Language Arts & Disciplines and Stillness is the Key--captivatedMichel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.