Alexander Dunst

Madness in Cold War America

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Produktbeschreibung

This study presents a cultural history of madness in the Cold War, tracing its origins in the transfer of European psychology, the re-evaluation of psychosis in the Sixties and the retreat of the left under Reagan. Tropes of madness dramatize the conflict between social determination and personal will and ultimately imagine a sociality beyond liberal individualism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781138951242
• ISBN-10: 1138951242
• Artikelnr.: 43033928

Autorenporträt

Alexander Dunst is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Paderborn.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Cold War Madness
2. The Pathologies of Dissent: Constructing the Cold War Psyche
3. Practical Cures: From Radical Psychiatry to Self Help
4. A Sane Madness?: Psychosis and Cold War Countercultures
5. Paranoid Narrative: Writing the Secret History of the Cold War
6. A Schizophrenic Postmodernity: Literary Studies and the Politics of
Critique