Madness and modernism: insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought
Choice Reviews Online, Vol. 30, Issue 07, pp. 30–4108 (1993)
10.5860/choice.30-4108
Abstract
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.
Topics
Field: Arts and Humanities · Subfield: Philosophy
Keywords
Modernism (music),Nihilism,Insanity,Relativism,Portrait,Sass,Philosophy,Literature,Art,Art history
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