Mad/Bad/Sad: Philosophical, Political, Poetic and Artistic Reflections on the History of Madness / Edited by Gonzalo Araoz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Araoz, Gonzalo, editor.

Series:

Probing the boundaries.

Probing the Boundaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Congresses.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume collects a series of writings exploring the notion, the experience and the representation of madness from different disciplinary perspectives and in different cultural contexts.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction: Araoz ""; ""Part 1 The History of Madness: Philosophy and Politics ""; ""Love and Madness in Plato's Phaedrus: Rekha Navneet ""; ""Uncontrollable Passion or a Deeper Ethical Problem: Seyda Inceoglu ""; ""Madness or Civilisation: Noelle Vahanian ""; ""Madness as a Philosophical Problem in Hegel: Sean J. McGrath ""; ""Can We Understand Madness without Rationalizing It? Johnathan Sunley ""; ""The Uses for Respectable Madness in the Irish Provincial Press: John O'Neill ""

""Madness and Punishment during Apartheid: Natacha Filippi """"Part 2 The Experience of Madness and Creativity: Metaphors and Performance ""; ""E.A. Poe's 'The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether': Daniela Fargione ""; ""An Unsound Mind in an Unsound Body: Katarzyna Szmigiero ""; ""Maddening Passion in The Morgensens: Xiang Long ""; ""Madness: Mira Marcinow ""; ""The Visibility of Difference: Katrina Jaworski ""; ""Roaring Poetry, Singing Frenzy: Nicoletta Fazio ""; ""'Because the drummed rythm was seven...': Richard McGregor ""; ""Categorical Impulses: Suzanne Albanus ""

""Along the Edge: Daniel G. Scott """"'Their Lives A Storm Whereon They Ride': Stephanie Stone Horton ""; ""Institutional Autoethnography as Relational-Reflexive Testimony: Louise Tam ""; ""Of Congenial Paranoids and Enlightened Shadows: Nuria Casado-Gual ""; ""Madness: Iwona Bojarska ""; ""Back Cover ""

Notes:

"This electronic book is the result of the 3rd Global Conference on Madness: Probing the Boundaries, which was hosted by Inter-Disciplinary.Net at the University of Oxford's Oriel College in September 2010."

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-100-2

OCLC:

891397153

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881006 DOI