In this page book, Michel Foucault devotes three pages and, moreover, in a a certain passage from the aness,oly, dementia, insanity seem, I emphasize seem, dismissed, excluded, and ostracized lecture' clearly indicates, Michel Foucault's book Folic et deraison: Histoire de' la folie a I'age This book, admirable in so many respects, powerful in its breadth and style, is even more intimidating for me in that, having formerly had the good fortune to study under Michel Foucault, I retain the consciousness of an admiring and grateful disciple.