Paranoia & contentment
a personal essay on Western thought
by John C. Hampsey
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"Paranoia and Contentment is an investigation into Western intellectual history. John Hampsey approaches paranoia not as a clinical term for an irrational sense of persecution but, from a uniquely positive perspective, as a cultural truth - a way of understanding the history of human thought and perhaps the best way to describe Being itself." "Hampsey traces an arc of paranoic moments in Western culture. Abraham, Jesus, Socrates, Hypatia, Joan of Arc, Goethe, Blake, Kierkegaard, Schreber - these are only a few among the many figures whom the author examines in order to isolate moments in Western intellectual history when paranoic vision temporarily breaks through the barriers of paranoidic fear. The book's analyses and inquiries are joined by anecdotal interludes in which Hampsey applies the conflicting concepts of paranoic and paranoidic to revealing moments in his own life."--Jacket.
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Paranoia And Contentment: A Personal Essay on Western Thought
November 30, 2005, University of Virginia Press
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in English
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0813925096 9780813925097
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Paranoia & contentment: a personal essay on Western thought
2004, University of Virginia Press
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0813922941 9780813922942
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-201) and index.
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