Mind, Modernity, Madness : The Impact of Culture on Human Experience / Liah Greenfeld.
Greenfeld, Liah, author.
2013
RC455 .G726 2013eb
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Title Mind, Modernity, Madness : The Impact of Culture on Human Experience / Liah Greenfeld.
Author Greenfeld, Liah, author.
ISBN 9780674074408
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074408
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (688 p.) : 1 line illustration, 2 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674074408 doi
Call Number RC455 .G726 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.89
Summary It's the American dream-unfettered freedom to follow our ambitions, to forge our identities, to become self-made. But what if our culture of limitless self-fulfillment is actually making millions desperately ill? One of our leading interpreters of modernity and nationalism, Liah Greenfeld argues that we have overlooked the connection between egalitarian society and mental illness. Intellectually fearless, encompassing philosophy, psychology, and history, Mind, Modernity, Madness challenges the most cherished assumptions about the blessings of living in a land of the free. Modern nationalism, says Greenfeld, rests on bedrock principles of popular sovereignty, equality, and secularism. Citizens of the twenty-first century enjoy unprecedented freedom to become the authors of their personal destinies. Empowering as this is, it also places them under enormous psychic strain. They must constantly appraise their identities, manage their desires, and calibrate their place within society. For vulnerable individuals, this pressure is too much. Training her analytic eye on extensive case histories in manic depression and schizophrenia, Greenfeld contends that these illnesses are dysfunctions of selfhood caused by society's overburdening demands for self-realization. In her rigorous diagnosis, madness is a culturally constituted malady. The culminating volume of Greenfeld's nationalism trilogy, Mind, Modernity, Madness is a tour de force in the classic tradition of Émile Durkheim-and a bold foray into uncharted territory. Often counter-intuitive, always illuminating, Mind, Modernity, Madness presents a many-sided view of humanity, one that enriches our deepest understanding of who we are and what we aspire to be.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Philosophical
1. Premises
2. The Mind as an Emergent Phenomenon
II. Psychological
3. Madness in Its Pure Form
4. Madness Muddled
III. Historical
5. The Cradle of Madness
6. Going International
7. Madder Than Them All
Afterword
Notes
Index

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