The rationality of madness: Did Plato, Cusanus and Kierkegaard get it right?

Modern psychiatry has arguably been taken captive by the philosophical presuppositions of modernity to the extent that its descriptions of mental illness appear unstable and susceptible to misuse. Foucault pointed to Nicholas Cusanus as a possible alternative, and this suggestion is here taken as th...

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Published in:Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
Main Author: Alfsvåg, Knut 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter [2020]
In: Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Nicholas of Cusa 1401-1464 / Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855 / Rationality / Faith / Craziness
RelBib Classification:KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KDB Roman Catholic Church
KDD Protestant Church
NBE Anthropology
VA Philosophy
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Epistemology
B Rationality
B Despair
B Anxiety
B Epistemologie
B Psychiatry
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