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Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry - The Lure of Madness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry - The Lure of Madness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in
the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness. It
traces the paradoxical endeavour of reason attempting to understand
madness without dissolving the inherent strangeness and otherness
of madness. It provides a comprehensive overview of the
contributions of phenomenology, critical theory, psychoanalysis,
post-structuralism and anti-psychiatry to continental philosophy
and psychiatry. The book outlines an intellectual tradition of
psychiatry that is both fascinated by and withdraws from madness.
Madness is a lure for philosophy in two senses; as both trap and
provocation. It is a trap because this philosophical tradition
constructs an otherness of madness so profound, that it condemns
madness to silence. However, the idea of madness as another world
is also a fertile provocation because it respects the non-identity
of madness to reason. The book concludes with some critical
reflections on the role of madness in contemporary philosophical
thought.
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