Madness: A Very Short Introduction
Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole industry has grown up, devoted to its management and suppression.
Madness profoundly disturbs our common sense assumptions; threatens the social order, both symbolically and practically; creates almost unbearable disruptions in the texture of daily living; and turns our experience and our expectations upside down. Lunacy, insanity, psychosis, mental illness - whatever term we prefer, its referents are disturbances of reason, the passions, and human action that frighten, create chaos, and yet sometimes amuse; that mark a gulf between the common sense reality most of us embrace, and the discordant version some humans appear to experience.
| Editura | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| Colecție | Very Short Introductions |
| ISBN | 978-0-19-960803-4 |
| Număr de pagini | 152 |
| Formatul cărţii | 11x17 cm |
| Tip copertă | Paperback |
| Data apariției | 2011 |
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