{"product_id":"madness-and-modernism-insanity-in-the-light-of-modern-art-literature-and-thought-revised-edition-paperback","title":"Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought (Revised Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouis Sass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this revised edition of a now classic work, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a radically new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, and Duchamp, and considering the ideas of philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. Here is a highly original portrait of the world of insanity, along with a provocative commentary on modernist and postmodernist culture.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis Sass, \u003cem\u003eDistinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers University, USA\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLouis Sass is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University (New Jersey, U.S.A.)-where he is also associated with the Program in Comparative Literature and the Center for Cognitive Science. In addition to Madness and Modernism, he is the author of The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind, and of many articles on schizophrenia, phenomenological psychopathology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, modernism\/postmodernism, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger. Sass is a past president of the divisions for psychology and the arts and also for philosophy and psychology of the American Psychological Association. In 2010 he received the Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Foundation for \"the most scholarly contribution to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.\"\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.4 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47574595043549,"sku":"9780198779292","price":172.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/E4KQz7yeCy9780198779292.webp?v=1773425510","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/madness-and-modernism-insanity-in-the-light-of-modern-art-literature-and-thought-revised-edition-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}