Madness in experience and history : Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and Foucault's archaeology / Hannah Lyn Venable.

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Venable, Hannah Lyn [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
  • New York, New York ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2022]
  • ©2022
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1 online resource (259 pages)

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Contents
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • PART I Introducing the United Approach
  • Introduction
  • A. Perspective From Experience: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Approach
  • B. Perspective From History: Foucault's Archaeological Approach
  • C. Defining Terms
  • D. Outline of Project
  • 1 The Case for Unity: Integrating Experience in History
  • A. History Expressed in Experience
  • B. Beyond the Rational-Nonrational Divide
  • C. Awareness of Loss and Tragedy
  • D. Conclusion
  • PART II Merleau-Ponty: Madness and the Pre-Rational
  • 2 Phenomenology of the Pre-Rational
  • A. The Unity of the Human: An Indivisible Consciousness
  • B. Placing the Pre-Rational in Human Experience
  • C. Unity of the Hum an Confirmed in Behavior
  • 3 Phenomenology of Madness
  • A. Madness as Intrinsic to Human Experience
  • B. Placing the Pre-Rational in Madness
  • C. Madness as Intrinsic Confirmed in Disordered Behavior
  • D. Insights Gained Into Human Experience
  • E. Conclusion
  • PART III Foucault: Madness and the Irrational
  • 4 Archaeology of the Irrational
  • A. Irrational of the Renaissance
  • B. Irrational of the Classical Age
  • C. Irrational of the Modern Age
  • D. Overarching Nonrational
  • 5 Archaeology of Madness
  • A. Madness in Modern Psychology: Foucault's Experience at the Carnival of the Mad
  • B. Modern Psychology: Division Between Theory and Practice
  • C. Case of Madness: Delirium
  • PART IV Synthesizing Merleau-Ponty and Foucault
  • 6 Merleau-Ponty vs. Foucault
  • A. Biographical Links
  • B. Phenomenological Subject vs. Bracketed Subject
  • C. Perceptionally Situated vs. Historically Situated
  • 7 Resolving the Problems: Uniting the Perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and Foucault.
  • A. How to Synthesize Them: A Question of Strategy
  • B. Place of the Human Subject
  • C. Place of History
  • D. Role of Psychology
  • PART V Toward an Application
  • 8 The Strength of a United Approach: Implications in Psychology
  • A. Schizophrenia
  • B. Major Depressive Disorder
  • C. Bipolar I Disorder
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 1-00-318153-8
  • 1-003-18153-8
  • 1-000-46953-0
OCLC
1273977010
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