Madness & Modernism – Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature & Thought: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature and Thought - Softcover

Sass, Louis A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674541375 ISBN 13: 9780674541375

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1994

Synopsis

The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of authority, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this book, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, and Duchamp and philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida. It provides a portrait of the world of the madman, along with a commentary on modernist and postmodernist culture.

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Review:

Wholly fascinating..."Madness and Modernism" is rooted in a thorough knowledge of the psychological literature, but [Sass] also draws on an extensive acquaintance with 19th and 20th-century art, literature and philosophy...Powerful, lucid and original...Should revolutionise our thinking about the workings of the human mind. -- Iain McGilchrist "London Review of Books"

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0674541375
• ISBN 13: 9780674541375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608