Revels in madness : insanity in medicine and literature / Allen Thiher.

  • Thiher, Allen, 1941-
Date:
[1999], ©1999
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1999], ©1999.

Physical description

354 pages ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliography (p. [325]-335) and index.

Contents

Madness from Hippocrates to Hølderlin -- Discourses on madness in the Greco-Roman world -- Continuities and ruptures in Medieval folly -- Madness and early modernity in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes -- The iatro-mechanical era and the madness of machines -- Neoclassicism, the rise of singularity, and moral treatment -- Part the modernity of madness -- The German romantics and the invention of psychiatry -- Pathological anatomy and the poetics of madness -- Modern determinations of insanity: psychiatry and psychoanalysis -- Modernist poetic discourse in madness -- The contemporary scene's affirmation of and rebellion against logos -- Postscript: madness between history and neurology -- Notes -- Index.

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  • 0472110357