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"Madness plays a vital role in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness also often occupies a central thematic position in the texts. In this book, Debra Hershkowitz examines from a variety of theoretical angles the representation and poetic function of mad…
"Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. This book rethinks madness and dist…
Referencing Joanne Greenberg's book 'I Never Promised you a Rose Garden', this collection demonstrates the challenge, determination and successes of the authors in working towards a paradigm shift in the understanding of madness and distress. This landmark text is essential read…
Michel Foucault ist einer der am häufigsten zitierten Autoren in den Geisteswissenschaften geworden.Dieses Studienhandbuch bietet eine neue, zusammenhängende Darstellung seiner Schriften, von denen oft behauptet wird, sie seien von Brüchen und Widersprüchen geprägt. Es werden ni…
Betr. u.a. die letzten Briefe Friedrich Nietzsches an Jacob Burckhardt.
In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about soci…
Per la prima volta in un testo italiano si affronta il tema della follia nell'antichità. Per i Greci la follia non era solo una malattia ma anche un mezzo per dilatare la personalità: era lo strumento con cui la Pizia rendeva oracoli a Delfi, stava alla base di culti estatici co…
Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially tragedy, gave the West its permanent perception of madness as violent and damaging.…
Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially tragedy, gave the West its permanent perception of madness as violent and damaging.…
"Revels in Madness offers a history of Western culture's shifting understandings of insanity as evidenced in its literature and as influenced by medical knowledge. The book traces the period from the development of Greek medicine, and of Greek tragedy and comedy, to contemporary…
