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From: Matthew King <making@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:53:32 -0400 (EDT)
There is a very harsh review of History of Madness in the Times Literary
Supplement:
http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25347-2626687,00.html
It mainly attacks Foucault for his deliberate use of antiquated and
unreliable sources--concluding that, as a historian, Foucault is a
charlatan.
It has also heightened my fears about the quality of the translation,
which I don't think I've heard anyone say anything good about. On a purely
formal level, from the passage the review provides comparing the new
translation to Howard's, it looks like the new one has imported the kind
of syntactic ambiguities which, at least for me, make the English
translations of Birth of the Clinic and The Order of Things difficult to
read.
Matthew