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The Madness of Knowledge - On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (Hardcover)
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The Madness of Knowledge - On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (Hardcover)
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Many human beings have considered the powers and the limits of
human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the
idea of knowledge has over us. Steven Connor's The Madness of
Knowledge is the first book to investigate this emotional inner
life of knowledge--the lusts, fantasies, dreams, and fears that the
idea of knowing provokes. There are in-depth discussions of the
imperious will to know, of Freud's epistemophilia (or love of
knowledge), and the curiously insistent links between madness,
magical thinking, and the desire for knowledge. Connor also probes
secrets and revelations, quarreling and the history of quizzes and
"general knowledge," charlatanry and pretension, both the violent
disdain and the sanctification of the stupid, as well as the
emotional investment in the spaces and places of knowledge, from
the study to the library. In an age of artificial intelligence,
alternative facts, and mistrust of truth, The Madness of Knowledge
offers an opulent, enlarging, and sometimes unnerving
psychopathology of intellectual life.
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