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«Auf dem Kopf gehen». Il discorso sulla follia nel Lenz di Georg Büchner

Itinera, 2023
The essay aims to analyse Georg Büchner’s novel Lenz as a viable argument on madness that overturns the Cartesian perspective of Metaphysical Meditations.
Daniela Liguori
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Locura y literatura: La otra mirada

La Manzana de la Discordia, 2016
Resumen: Locura y literatura son dos temas que aparecen intrínsecamente unidos ya sea por esa frontera liminal que existe entre el genio y la insensatez o quizá por la necesidad de poner en boca de personajes locos una verdad peligrosa.
Elvira Sánchez-Blake
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Restoring Madness to History in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country

MediaTropes, 2015
This article interrogates the curious dismissal of madness from the critical landscape surrounding J. M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country, and makes suggestions concerning how madness works in the novel and why—given certain critical and historical ...
William Collins
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Madness and Revenge: Gendered False Consciousness in the Golden Age Crime Novel

Forum, 2011
Elaine Showalter has objected to what she sees as a tendency in Cixous's writing to reflect on hysteria as a subversive and even empowering 'act' in the confrontation of patriarchy.
Samantha Walton
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Le fou social et le fou mental : amalgames théoriques, synthèses empiriques et rencontres institutionnelles

Sociologies, 2010
The purpose of this article is a) to better understand in general, throughout certain historic grounds and major institutional turns, for the most part in Quebec, the historically changing economy between two inseparable worlds, « mental madness » and ...
Marcelo Otero
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Eschatological Madness in Michel Foucault’s analysis [PDF]

Eon
Michel Foucault does not propose a system of typologies for the phenomenon of madness. On the contrary, he acknowledges that this is not the intention of his analytical approach.
Marius CUCU, Oana LENȚA
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Derrida, Foucault and “Madness, the Absence of an Œuvre” [PDF]

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2011
This article argues that Foucault's 1964 paper “La folie, l'absence d'œuvre” ought to be understood as a response to Derrida's 1963 paper “Cogito et histoire de la folie”.
Seferin James
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Madness and subjective destitution: Towards a possible exit from capitalism [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo
Madness, as Hegel tells us, is inherent within all, a state each of us moves through each time we acquire a new habit. Like madness, subjective destitution is also an inherent state, one each of us moves through in our initial state of being ...
Cruz Cynthia
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Loucura e razão: produzindo classes interativas

Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 2008
The article proposes a discussion of some present configurations of madness, reviewing, in the first moment, the ideas of Ian Hacking, in order to think this existence mode as an operative effect of a matrix that constitutes social interactive ...
Andrea Cristina Scisleski, Cleci Maraschin   +1 more
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Madness as disability

History of Psychiatry, 2014
How does society imagine mental illness? Does this shift radically over time and with different social attitudes as well as scientific discoveries about the origins and meanings of mental illness? What happens when we begin to think about mental illness as madness, as a malleable concept constantly shifting its meaning?
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