Description
| Product ID: | 9780198779292 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry |
| Title: | Madness and Modernism |
| Subtitle: | Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought (revised edition) |
| Authors: | Author: Louis A. Sass |
| Page Count: | 560 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: Postmodernism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Philosophy of mind, Abnormal psychology, Clinical psychology, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Philosophy of mind, Abnormal psychology, Clinical psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Madness and Modernism provides a phenomenological study of schizophrenic disorders, criticizing some standard conceptions of these disorders. Sass argues that many aspects of this group of disorders can actually involve more sophisticated (albeit dysfunctional) forms of mind and experience. The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more.In this revised edition of a now classic work, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a radically new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, and Duchamp, and considering the ideas of philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. Here is a highly original portrait of the world of insanity, along with a provocative commentary on modernist and postmodernist culture. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-08-31 |
