The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In 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...(展开全部)

路易斯·萨斯（Louis Sass），美国罗格斯大学临床心理学系杰出教授，也是该校比较文学研究所和认知科学中心成员。除本书外，他还著有《妄想的悖论：维特根斯坦、史雷伯和精神分裂症》等。萨斯是美国心理学会心理学和艺术部以及哲学和心理学部的前任主席。2010年，他因“对心理学知识的哲学基础的研究”而获得美国心理学基金会的约瑟夫•B.吉特勒奖。 林徐达 美国普林斯顿大学人类学博士，现任台湾东华大学族群关系与文化学系教授。著有《诠释人类学：民族志阅读与书写的交互评注》（2015）、《在奇幻地：精神病院的临床民族志》（2022）。 梁永安 台湾大学人类学学士，哲学硕士，专职译者。

The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In 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...(展开全部)

路易斯·萨斯（Louis Sass），美国罗格斯大学临床心理学系杰出教授，也是该校比较文学研究所和认知科学中心成员。除本书外，他还著有《妄想的悖论：维特根斯坦、史雷伯和精神分裂症》等。萨斯是美国心理学会心理学和艺术部以及哲学和心理学部的前任主席。2010年，他因“对心理学知识的哲学基础的研究”而获得美国心理学基金会的约瑟夫•B.吉特勒奖。 林徐达 美国普林斯顿大学人类学博士，现任台湾东华大学族群关系与文化学系教授。著有《诠释人类学：民族志阅读与书写的交互评注》（2015）、《在奇幻地：精神病院的临床民族志》（2022）。 梁永安 台湾大学人类学学士，哲学硕士，专职译者。

This was Michel Foucault's first major book, written while he was the Director of the Maison de France in Sweden. It examines ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history. Foucault begins his history in the Middle Ages, noting the social and physical exclusion of lepers. He argues that with the gradual disappearance of leprosy, madne...(展开全部)

This was Michel Foucault's first major book, written while he was the Director of the Maison de France in Sweden. It examines ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history. Foucault begins his history in the Middle Ages, noting the social and physical exclusion of lepers. He argues that with the gradual disappearance of leprosy, madne...(展开全部)

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces ...(展开全部)

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces ...(展开全部)

Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in the circumcision, both required acknowledgment of the genital organ. More than exercises in realism, these unabashed images und...(展开全部)