Paranoia and Contentment
A Personal Essay on Western Thought
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Published:12th Dec '05
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A hybrid in both content and style, ""Paranoia and Contentment"" is a bold and original 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.
Paranoia and Contentment is a fascinating exercise in redefining 'paranoia' and coining the word 'paranoidic,' thereby positing new criteria for analyzing our life and society today. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti ""Paranoia and Contentment is a sharply reasoned, humane, surprising, and intellectually bold meditation on paranoic vision. Part scholarship, part personal essay, this beautifully written book turns upside down our standard thinking about paranoia, creativity, imagination, and what it is to be wholly human."" - Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried and winner of the National Book Award ""An extraordinarily original rumination on the human condition, ranging across a broad field of philosophical thought and Western literature.... Hampsey's goal is to startle us into reconsidering our conventional ways of thinking, and I believe he has achieved that goal admirably.... Eminently readable, often eloquent."" - Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Boston University, author of A People's History of the United States
ISBN: 9780813925097
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 400g
256 pages