The man who thought he was napoleon toward a political history of madness murat laure isbn 9780226025735 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The man who thought he was napoleon toward a political history of madness english edition ebook murat laure bell david a dusinberre deke amazonde kindle shop. The man who thought he was napoleon explores for the first time in archives and unpublished materials the relationship between history and madness ideology and pathology ambitious monomania revolutionary neuroses democratic disease are names of just some of the many diseases related to political convictions that french physicians discovered from 1789 to 1871 how can one read today this epistemological construction is history legible through registers of . The man who thought he was napoleon toward a political history of madness by laure murat translated by deke dusinberre university of chicago press 304pp gbp3150 isbn 9780226025735 and 5872 e book published 13 october 2014. The man who thought he was napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off hand challenge the event in december 1840 nearly twenty years after his death the remains of napoleon were returned to paris for burial and the next day the director of a paris hospital for the insane admitted fourteen men who claimed to be napoleon the challenge meanwhile is the claim by great french psychiatrist jean etienne dominique esquirol 1772 1840 that he could recount the history