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Ferit Güven illuminates the historically constitutive roles of madness and death in philosophy by examining them in the light of contemporary discussions of the intersection of power and knowledge and ethical relations with the other. Historically, as Güven shows, philosophical treatments of madness and death have limited or subdued their disruptive quality. Madness and death are linked to the question of how to conceptualize the unthinkable, but Güven illustrates how this conceptualization results in a reduction to positivity of the very radical negativity these moments represent. Tracing this problematic through Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, and, finally, in the debate on madness between Foucault and Derrida, Güven gestures toward a nonreducible, disruptive form of negativity, articulated in Heidegger's critique of Hegel and Foucault's engagement with Derrida, that might allow for the preservation of real otherness and open the possibility of a true ethics of difference.

Philosophy --- Mental illness --- Death --- History. --- Insanity --- Insanity (Law) --- Criminal insanity --- Insanity (Jurisprudence) --- Lunacy (Law) --- Mentally ill --- Capacity and disability --- Insanity defense --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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Aliénation mentale (Droit) --- Criminal insanity --- Insanity --- Insanity (Jurisprudence) --- Insanity (Law) --- Lunacy (Law) --- Madness --- Mental illness--Law and legislation --- Mentally ill--Legal status, laws, etc. --- Waanzin --- Psychiatry --- Mental illness --- Philosophy --- History --- Psychiatry - Philosophy --- Mental illness - History

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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Emotions. --- Insanity (Law) --- Criminal insanity --- Insanity --- Insanity (Jurisprudence) --- Lunacy (Law) --- Mental illness --- Mentally ill --- Capacity and disability --- Insanity defense --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Psychology --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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"In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs. Although Alexander and those living with her insisted that she was perfectly well, the official solicitor took control of her home and money, evicted her "friends," and hired a live-in companion to watch over her. Alexander remained legally incapable for the next thirty years. In the mid-twentieth century, Alexander was one of about thirty thousand people in England and Wales who were, at any time, legally "incapable" and under the auspices of what is now the Court of Protection. Focusing on the period between the 1920s and the 1960s, Looking After Miss Alexander explains the workings of the court, using Alexander's unusual case to consider the complexities of this aspect of mental health law. Drawing on Court of Protection archives--some of which were made publicly available for the first time in 2019--and micro-historical methods, Janet Weston also highlights the role of chance, subjectivity, and uncertainty in shaping how events unfolded then, and the stories we tell about those events today. An engaging and accessible history of mental capacity law, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of citizenship and welfare, gender and vulnerability, care and control, and the role of the state. It also offers reflections on historical research and writing itself."--

Mental health law. --- British Union of Fascists. --- Dorset. --- Lunacy Office. --- Official Solicitor. --- autonomy. --- capacity. --- care. --- carers. --- chance. --- citizenship. --- common law. --- competence. --- control. --- dementia. --- disability. --- elder abuse. --- exploitation. --- financial abuse. --- friendship. --- gender. --- guardianship. --- homecare. --- imagination. --- incapacity. --- indeterminacy. --- informal care. --- interwar. --- legal history. --- lunacy law. --- mental defect. --- mental health law. --- mental illness. --- microhistory. --- nursing. --- respectability. --- retirement. --- small history. --- social policy. --- socio-legal history. --- subjectivity. --- vulnerability. --- welfare state. --- welfare.

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Aliénation mentale (Droit) --- Criminal insanity --- Insanity --- Insanity (Jurisprudence) --- Insanity (Law) --- Lunacy (Law) --- Madness --- Mental illness--Law and legislation --- Mentally ill--Legal status, laws, etc. --- Waanzin --- Psychology --- Mental illness --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychologie --- Maladies mentales --- Psychanalyse --- Human evolution. --- Social evolution. --- Human evolution --- Social evolution