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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780367264000
• ISBN-10: 0367264005
• Artikelnr.: 56923763

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