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A Mad King in a Mad World: The Death of Cambyses in Herodotus

Histos, 2018
This paper advances a theological interpretation of the madness, downfall, and death of the Herodotean Cambyses, understood as divine retribution for the king’s slaying of Apis, the supreme violation of Egyptian nomoi.
Brian D. Mcphee
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Into the Deep End: From Madness-as-Strategy to Madness-as-Right

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
A central notion in Mad Pride activism is that “madness is a natural reaction” (Curtis et al. 2000, 22). In Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (2022), Justin Garson provides a compelling exploration and defence of this idea through the book’s central ...
Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo
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Strategy, Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Allure of Madness

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Justin Garson introduces the distinction between two views on Madness we encounter again and again throughout history: Madness as dysfunction, and Madness as strategy.
Sofia Jeppsson, Paul Lodge
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“Stark Raving Sane”: A Deconstructionist Reading of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Anafora, 2021
The focus of this study is the theme of Hamlet’s madness in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which as a play based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, provides a critique on this theme through the perspective of Ros and Guil, who, by means of a
Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia, Fatemeh Raeisi
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Szaleństwo w kostiumie. Metateatralność Henryka IV Luigiego Pirandella

Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2021
The aim of this article is to explore the theatrical nature of madness in one of Luigi Pirandello’s most famous characters: Henry IV. For the purposes of this paper I denominate his state “madness in costume”, for a number of reasons.
Aleksandra Koman
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Social learning strategies regulate the wisdom and madness of interactive crowds

Nature Human Behaviour, 2019
Why groups of individuals sometimes exhibit collective ‘wisdom’ and other times maladaptive ‘herding’ is an enduring conundrum. Here we show that this apparent conflict is regulated by the social learning strategies deployed.
Wataru Toyokawa, A. Whalen, K. Laland
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Why Talk About Madness?

Why Talk About Madness?, 2020
This title chapter asserts that we should talk more about madness in historical context. It positions definitions and ideas about madness in the twentieth century, a period when understandings of what it means to be ‘mad’ underwent a significant ...
C. Coleborne
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Cine y locura: momentos de una atracción. Movies and Madness: Moments of an attraction.

Psicoespacios, 2010
  Movies and Madness: Moments of an attraction. Resumen. Un artículo que reflexiona sobre los encuentros y desencuentros del cine y la psicopatología. Critica las exageraciones y tergiversaciones de la locura en afán del consumismo cinematográfico y
Sonia Natalia Cogollo
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Directed evolution of enzymes at the crossroads of tradition and innovation

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
An iterative cycle of data‐driven enzyme optimization comprising four stages: genetic diversification of a template enzyme, expression of protein variants, high‐throughput evaluation, and machine‐learning‐guided redesign of the next variant library.
Maria Tomkova, Andrej Mirossay, Erik Sedlak   +2 more
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Prognosis End-Time: Madness and Prophecy in Melancholia and Take Shelter

Altre Modernità, 2013
This paper discusses two films released in 2011, Lars Von Trier's Melancholia and Jeff Nichols Take Shelter in the context of the history of dominant conceptions of madness as laid out in Foucault's History of Madness. I argue that these films allegorise
Briohny Doyle
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