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Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought

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Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought (revised edition) - Sass, Louis A.
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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 ...

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Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought (revised edition) 2017, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198779292

Paperback

Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought 1998, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass

ISBN-13: 9780674541375

Trade paperback

Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought 1992, Basic Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780465043125

Hardcover