Foucault — “Death as the destruction of all things no…”

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason — Michel Foucault

Book page: foucault-madness-civilization

From: Madness and Civilization — Quotes

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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.