Philosophy of Madness
Philosophy of Madness 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…
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Philosophy of Madness
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. 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. 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.
Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he