MICHEL FOUCAULT’S EPISTEMOLOGY OF ILLNESS: MADNESS AS A TRUE NATURE OF A PERSON
This article is devoted to the epistemology of illness in the works of Michel Foucault. The article contains the analysis of such works as Mental Illness and Personality and History of Madness in Classical Epoch and describes the stages of Foucault’s epistemological views development. The author underlines the historically-anthropological orientation of the interpretation of madness in Foucault’s epistemology: madness is understood as a true nature of reason, a true nature of a person.