The Madness Of Knowledge
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The Madness Of Knowledge
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Author : Steven Connor
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2019-04-15
The Madness Of Knowledge written by Steven Connor and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Philosophy categories.
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. 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. Steven 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.
The Madness Of Crowds
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Author : Douglas Murray
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-17
The Madness Of Crowds written by Douglas Murray and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Political Science categories.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' – Jordan B. Peterson '[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' – Richard Dawkins Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive. One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.
The Archaeology Of Knowledge
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Author : Michel Foucault
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-07-11
The Archaeology Of Knowledge written by Michel Foucault and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-11 with Philosophy categories.
Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of "things aid" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methadological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now. Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutey indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time.
Insanity
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Author : Jonah F. Haddad
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Insanity written by Jonah F. Haddad and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Religion categories.
"Have you seen such men--peculiar, raving, foam-mouthed, and straitjacketed--throwing themselves mercilessly at white padded walls . . . ? Such men are said to be insane. But there is more to insanity than the images depicted in film and planted in our minds by popular media. Insanity is a condition that affects us all. Unsoundness of mind disrupts our ability to think clearly and to form knowledge about the world. Our understanding is dangerously incomplete and our minds are corrupt. We are all insane. How then can we ever hope to know our world? Is it possible to form justified true beliefs about anything? What possibility, if any, do we have of escaping this condition of madness that keeps us from the light of knowledge? In Insanity, Jonah Haddad explores these very questions by introducing the main problems of the theory of knowledge and by offering a response to our madness--a response grounded in God, the ultimate Knower. "
Madness And Civilization
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Author : Michel Foucault
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-01-30
Madness And Civilization written by Michel Foucault and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-30 with History categories.
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Itineraries And Languages Of Madness In The Early Modern World
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Author : Mariana Labarca
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Release Date : 2021
Itineraries And Languages Of Madness In The Early Modern World written by Mariana Labarca and has been published by Taylor & Francis Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Insanity (Law) categories.
"Drawing on a wide range of sources including interdiction procedures, records of criminal justice, documentation from mental hospitals, and medical literature, this book provides a comprehensive study of the spaces in which madness was recorded in Tuscany during the eighteenth century. It proposes the notion of itineraries of madness, which, intended as an heuristic devise, enables us to examine records of madness across the different spaces where it was disclosed, casting light on the connections between how madness was understood and experienced, the language employed to describe it, and public and private responses devised to cope with it. Placing the emotional experience of the Tuscan families at the core of its analysis, this book stresses the central role of families in the shaping of new understandings of madness and how lay notions interacted with legal and medical knowledge. It argues that perceptions of madness in the eighteenth century were closely connected to new cultural concerns regarding family relationships and family roles, which resulted in a shift in the meanings of and attitudes to mental disturbances"--
Inheriting Madness
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Author : Ian Dowbiggin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1991-05-14
Inheriting Madness written by Ian Dowbiggin and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-05-14 with History categories.
Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and evolution of psychiatry during this period. In Dowbiggin's mind, this fondness for hereditarianism stemmed from the need to reconcile two counteracting factors. On the one hand, psychiatrists were attempting to expand their power and privileges by excluding other groups from the treatment of the mentally ill. On the other hand, medicine's failure to effectively diagnose, cure, and understand the causes of madness made it extremely difficult for psychiatrists to justify such an expansion. These two factors, Dowbiggin argues, shaped the way psychiatrists thought about insanity, encouraging them to adopt hereditarian ideas, such as the degeneracy theory, to explain why psychiatry had failed to meet expectations. Hereditarian theories, in turn, provided evidence of the need for psychiatrists to assume more authority, resources, and cultural influence. Inheriting Madness is a forceful reminder that psychiatric notions are deeply rooted in the social, political, and cultural history of the profession itself. At a time when genetic interpretations of mental disease are again in vogue, Dowbiggin demonstrates that these views are far from unprecedented, and that in fact they share remarkable similarities with earlier theories. A familiarity with the history of the psychiatric profession compels the author to ask whether or not public faith in it is warranted.
Making Sense Of Madness
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Author : Jim Geekie
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2009
Making Sense Of Madness written by Jim Geekie and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Psychology categories.
This book argues that the experience of 'madness' is an integral part of what it is to be human, and that greater focus on subjective experiences can contribute to professional understandings and ways of helping those troubled by these experiences.
Madness In Plural Contexts Crossing Borders Linking Knowledge
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Madness In Plural Contexts Crossing Borders Linking Knowledge written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Social Science categories.
Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge, represents a decisive turn towards the social and cultural in contemporary understandings of madness. It focuses on diagnosis and interpretation of madness and in socio-cultural classifications and meanings of suffering, alongside discussions of mad identities in literature and media.
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds
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Author : Charles Mackay
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-02-28
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with History categories.
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