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A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking
By : Wouter Kusters
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Book Synopsis :
The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness.In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis--and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness--Kusters's preferred, non-medicalized term--coexist, one mirroring the other.Kusters draws on his own experience of madness--two episodes of psychosis, twenty years apart--as well as other first-person narratives of psychosis. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one into a full-blown acute psychotic
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Author : Wouter Kusters
Pages : 800 pages
Publisher : MIT Press
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ISBN-10 : 0262044285
ISBN-13 : 9780262044288
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