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 societyas overburdening demands for self-realization.The play offered, he insisted, athe most faithful delineation ofa disordered mind, a with Hamleta#39;s condition aoften manifested under circumstances that ... Hamleta#39;s madness could not be reconciled with popular prejudice, which the critics shared.
Title | : | Mind, Modernity, Madness |
Author | : | Liah Greenfeld |
Publisher | : | Harvard University Press - 2013-04-01 |
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