Madness And Modernism

The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of
convention, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange
transformations of self, and much more.
In this classic work, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a
radically new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of
such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, and Duchamp, and considering
the ideas of philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and
Derrida. Here is a highly original portrait of the world of insanity,
along with a provocative commentary on modernist and postmodernist
culture.