SOCD41H3 Lecture : Foucault Notes
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We seek in categorizing those things of which do not belong together and those of which are most similar to each other, we fail to realize their similarity. Borges helps to conceptualize the issue that this has caused where the over taxomy of earthly things has led to the creation of an imagination in which collectively; these subdivisions can live and thrive. It is possible that the fables that we have constructed are a resemblance of a utopian world. One in which is not bounded and restricted to the creation of groups, but rather rebellious of the ignorance of integration and similarity. Madness and civilization-michal foucault: during the 17th century, the hopital general was an instance of order, of the monarchial and bourgeois order being organized in france during this period. By the 17th century the number of unemployed had sky rocketed and the institution was a new solution.
