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Precision and Madness

Author : Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Precision and Madness written by Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, the broader movements of twentieth-century Swiss art--and the individual artists behind them--are tracked through the present day in one standard-setting publication. Swiss Made: Precision and Madness sets the famous Swiss tendency toward precision and order alongside the tendency toward obstinacy and chaos, pairing canonical works with pieces made within the past 40 years. Provocative pairs include Max Bill and John Armleder, Ferdinand Hodler and Urs Lüthi, Alberto Giacometti and Rémy Zaugg, Louis Soutter and Martin Disler, Robert Müller and Sylvie Fleury, Paul Klee and Silvia Bächli, Adolph Wölfli and Ugo Rondinone. Tensions emerge between the focused and the expansive, over everyday life in the Swiss state, and naturally over the mountains. Swiss Made: Precision and Madness is of interest on its own analytic terms, and as an excellent overview of the country's art since 1850.

The Perfectionists

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062652575
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Perfectionists written by Simon Winchester and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Another gem from one of the world’s justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people.” — Booklist (starred review) The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools—machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors, lenses, and cameras—and eventually gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider. Simon Winchester takes us back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who later exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. Winchester moves forward through time, to today’s cutting-edge developments occurring around the world, from America to Western Europe to Asia. As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society?

Law's Madness

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472022091
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Law's Madness written by Austin Sarat and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA provocative collection of essays that reveals how the law takes its definition from what it excludes /div

Crime and Madness in Modern Austria

Author : Rebecca S. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527565602
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Madness in Modern Austria written by Rebecca S. Thomas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the changing history, rhetoric, politics and representation of crime and madness in modern Austria. From the emergence of Viennese modernism to the post-modern moment, the myths, metaphors and realities of crime and madness have unfolded in the shadow of larger cultural questions regarding cultural norms, gender, war, and national identity. Historically based contributions illuminate such diverse cultural realities as the evolution of psychiatry as medical practice, asylum practices in the early twentieth century, and Austrian participation in and responses to terror and war crimes. From these investigations proceeds the clear insight that cultural responses to crime and madness are often steeped in mythmaking as much as objective policy and practice. Conversely, literary and metaphorical representations of crime and madness reveal attitudes and cultural realities about the Austrian society that produced them and which they reflect. Specialists from the fields of Austrian history, literature and culture studies have collaborated to produce this truly interdisciplinary volume, which responses to crime and madness are often steeped in mythmaking as much as objective policy and practice. Conversely, literary and metaphorical representations of crime and madness reveal attitudes and cultural realities about the Austrian society that produced them and which they reflect.

A Philosophy of Madness

Author : Wouter Kusters
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262044285
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Madness written by Wouter Kusters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. 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. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one into a full-blown acute psychotic episode. Indeed, a certain kind of philosophizing may result in confusion, paradoxes, unworldly insights, and circular frozenness reminiscent of madness. Psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as an inescapable truth and reality. Kusters evokes the mad person's philosophical or existential amazement at reality, thinking, time, and space, drawing on classic autobiographical accounts of psychoses by Antonin Artaud, Daniel Schreber, and others, as well as the work of phenomenological psychiatrists and psychologists and such phenomenologists as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He considers the philosophical mystic and the mystical philosopher, tracing the mad undercurrent in the Husserlian philosophy of time; visits the cloud castles of mystical madness, encountering LSD devotees, philosophers, theologians, and nihilists; and, falling to earth, finds anxiety, emptiness, delusions, and hallucinations. Madness and philosophy proceed and converge toward a single vanishing point.

Seeing the Insane

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080327064X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Seeing the Insane written by Sander L. Gilman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed.

The Madness of Epic

Author : Debra Hershkowitz
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191584495
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Madness of Epic written by Debra Hershkowitz and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-06-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness plays a vital role in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness also often occupies a central thematic position in the texts. In this book, Debra Hershkowitz examines from a variety of theoretical angles the representation and poetic function of madness in Greek and Latin epic from Homer through the Flavians, including individual chapters devoted to the Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and Statius' Thebaid. The study also addresses the difficulty of defining madness, and discusses how each epic explores this problem in a different way, finding its own unique way of conceptualizing madness. Epic madness interacts with ancient models of madness, but also, even more importantly, with previous representations of madness in the literary tradition. Likewise, the reader's response to epic madness is influenced by both ancient and modern views of madness, as well as by an awareness of intertextuality.

Mind, Modernity, Madness

Author : Liah Greenfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674074408
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Mind, Modernity, Madness written by Liah Greenfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading interpreter of modernity argues that our culture of limitless self-fulfillment is making millions mentally ill. Training her analytic eye on manic depression and schizophrenia, Liah Greenfeld, in the culminating volume of her trilogy on nationalism, traces these dysfunctions to society’s overburdening demands for self-realization.

Mad for Foucault

Author : Lynne Huffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149190
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Mad for Foucault written by Lynne Huffer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault's seminal arguments helped to establish the foundations of queer theory and greatly advance feminist critique, Lynne Huffer argues that our interpretation of the theorist's powerful ideas remains flawed.

Precision Psychiatry

Author : Leanne M. Williams, Ph.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 1615371583
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Precision Psychiatry written by Leanne M. Williams, Ph.D. and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precision psychiatry, as outlined in this groundbreaking book, presents a new path forward. By integrating findings from basic and clinical neuroscience, clinical practice, and population-level data, the field seeks to develop therapeutic approaches tailored for specific individuals with a specific constellation of health issues, characteristics, strengths, and symptoms.

Revels in Madness

Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024477
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Revels in Madness written by Allen Thiher and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present

Inequity and Madness

Author : J. Guimón
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306466740
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Inequity and Madness written by J. Guimón and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two ofthe most important notions concerning the rights of people with mental illness are among the most neglected: the first is that human rights and duties are complementary and that both must be considered in constructing a framework for mental health care. The second is that we must strive for equity and not only for equality in developing mental health programs. The first ofthese notions is complex. It refers to the duties ofpeople with mental illness and to the duties ofthose who surround them. Mental illness does not liberate the person who has it from civic obligations. The most basic ofthese is to give support to others and to refuse to harm them Their carers, society and the patient's self-respect all gain through their recognition, even though the fulfilment of these obligations might be difficult or impossible in certain periods ofillness. The duty of those surrounding the patients is to recognise and respect their existence and to make the necessary arrangements to respond to their needs, protect their rights and compensate for their temporary or permanent inability to fulfil their civic duties. A society's social capital is the public good that results from the mutual supportofmembers ofa society: iffor one reason or another, some or all members ofa society fail to offer such support the social capital will diminish and the society will cease to be civic.

Law Without Enforcement

Author : Nigel Eastman
Publisher : Hart Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1901362752
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Law Without Enforcement written by Nigel Eastman and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venturing beyond the politicized debate between public protection and patients' civil rights, 13 essays discuss such matters as the objectives and effectiveness of mental health law in the UK; whether the distinction between mental and physical illness is defensible; and the law as a clinical tool. Includes a case list (1957-1998). Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Madness

Author : Peter Morrall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317444124
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Madness written by Peter Morrall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it is part of a formal course of study. Using case studies of real people in order to explain, humanise, and bring to life the subject, Peter Morrall critically analyses how madness has been and is understood, or perhaps misunderstood. By contrasting past and present people who have been perceived as mad and/or perceive themselves as mad, Morrall presents core ideas about madness and critiques their would-be robustness in explaining the specific madness of the person in question, as well as their general relevance to madness overall. Unlike many of its contemporaries, the book does not adhere to a perspective, but rather remains skeptical about the ideas of all who profess to understand madness, whether these emanate from sociology, psychology, psychotherapy, anthropology, ‘anti’ psychiatry, or the biological sciences of contemporary ‘scientific-psychiatry’. This book will inform and stimulate the thinking of the reader, and challenge those with preconceived ideas about madness.

The Moon and Madness

Author : Niall McCrae
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845403312
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Moon and Madness written by Niall McCrae and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lunacy, the legendary notion of minds unhinged by the moon, continues to captivate the popular imagination. Although it violates the assumptions of modern science and psychiatry, such belief remains common among mental health workers. Furthermore, several studies have found a small, unexplained correlation between behaviour and the lunar cycle. The book is divided into two parts. It begins with a historical account of the lunacy concept, followed by an investigation of hypothetical mechanisms for a lunar effect.

A treatise on madness and suicide

Author : William Rowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A treatise on madness and suicide written by William Rowley and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Magic - Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries

Author : Eliphas Levi
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528783182
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The History of Magic - Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries written by Eliphas Levi and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage classic gives invaluable insight into the mysterious depths of the mind of French author and ceremonial magician, Éliphas Lévi. Explore the rich history of magic and delve into its procedures and rites as E. Lévi presents his knowledge of the occult. First published in 1913, this volume is an essential read for those with an interest in witchcraft and sorcery. The chapters featured in this volume include: - Magic of the Magi - Magic in Ancient Greece - The Kabalah - Primitive Symbolism - Mysticism - Oracles - Magical Monuments - Magic and Christianity - Pagan Magic - Kabalistic Paintings and Sacred Emblems - Sorcerers - Magic and Freemasonry - The Illuminati