Paranoia & contentment : a personal essay on Western thought / John C. Hampsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hampsey, John C., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contentment.

Creative thinking.

Physical Description:

x, 216 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Paranoia and contentment

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.

Summary:

A hybrid in both content and style, Paranoia and Contentment is a bold and original investigation into Western intellectual history. John Hampsey approaches paranoia not as a clinical term for an irrational sense of persecution but from a uniquely positive perspective, as a cultural truth - a way of understanding the history of human thought and perhaps the best way to describe Being itself.

Contents:

Damning the dialectic

Classicism blues

Doom, providence, accident

Romantic elisions

The Jutland heath

The paranoic as prayer

Coda : the paranoic and the productions of time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-201) and index.

ISBN:

0813922941

OCLC:

54853192