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Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought (Revised Edition)
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: Oct 31st, 2017
- Pages: 560
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.40in - 6.10in - 1.30in - 1.95lb
- EAN: 9780198779292
- Categories: • Psychopathology - General• General
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About the Author
Louis Sass is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University (New Jersey, U.S.A.)-where he is also associated with the Program in Comparative Literature and the Center for Cognitive Science. In addition to Madness and Modernism, he is the author of The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind, and of many articles on schizophrenia, phenomenological psychopathology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, modernism/postmodernism, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger. Sass is a past president of the divisions for psychology and the arts and also for philosophy and psychology of the American Psychological Association. In 2010 he received the Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Foundation for "the most scholarly contribution to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge."
What people are saying
"I loved “Madness and Modernism” by Louis Sass. I think that that was one of the books that made me want to write about psychosis. He kind of compares modernist literature to the schizophrenic experience as a way of saying we’ve misunderstood schizophrenia."
Catalogued as high modernist for expediency’s sake. AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS (@dalkey_archive) APHASIA (@fsgbooks) REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN (@Coffee_House_).
Amongst the most generative books I’ve been reading little by little over the years: MADNESS AND MODERNISM by Louis A. Sass [out of print] https://t.co/wU1n8xzaXB
What people are saying
"I loved “Madness and Modernism” by Louis Sass. I think that that was one of the books that made me want to write about psychosis. He kind of compares modernist literature to the schizophrenic experience as a way of saying we’ve misunderstood schizophrenia."
Catalogued as high modernist for expediency’s sake. AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS (@dalkey_archive) APHASIA (@fsgbooks) REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN (@Coffee_House_).
Amongst the most generative books I’ve been reading little by little over the years: MADNESS AND MODERNISM by Louis A. Sass [out of print] https://t.co/wU1n8xzaXB