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Madness and modernism: insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought

1993; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 30; Issue: 07 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.30-4108

1943-5975

Louis A. Sass,

Neurology and Historical Studies

The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of authority, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this book, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, and Duchamp and philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida. It provides a portrait of the world of the madman, along with a commentary on modernist and postmodernist culture.