This book is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness.
This book is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness.
Brian Taylor worked as a community development worker between 1984 and 1993, mostly for one of the first user/survivor led MIND groups in England. He draws on a range of personal experience including involvements in informal crisis support, self-help therapy, and anti-sexist men's groups, and has recenetly completed a PhD in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bradford.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgements PART I. Introduction 1. Approaching the politics of complexity 2. Why postmodernism? Conceptualising the politics of complexity PART II. Four biographical sketches 3. Genealogy and biography: how we become who we are 4. Behold in me the tyrant of Turin! Nietzsche madness and postmodernism 5. The scream of life itself? Language and power in the life of Antonin Artaud 6. Deconstructing sovereignty: the post-revolutionary toolbox of Michel Foucault 7. Like a marble guest: the nervous illness of Daniel Paul Schreber PART III. Some contemporary debates 8. Politics and experience: engaging with complex subjectivity 9. Masculinities and risk: negotiating the politics of complexity 10. Reconstructing men's lives: power/knowledge personal recovery and social transformation Notes Bibliography Index
Preface Acknowledgements PART I. Introduction 1. Approaching the politics of complexity 2. Why postmodernism? Conceptualising the politics of complexity PART II. Four biographical sketches 3. Genealogy and biography: how we become who we are 4. Behold in me the tyrant of Turin! Nietzsche madness and postmodernism 5. The scream of life itself? Language and power in the life of Antonin Artaud 6. Deconstructing sovereignty: the post-revolutionary toolbox of Michel Foucault 7. Like a marble guest: the nervous illness of Daniel Paul Schreber PART III. Some contemporary debates 8. Politics and experience: engaging with complex subjectivity 9. Masculinities and risk: negotiating the politics of complexity 10. Reconstructing men's lives: power/knowledge personal recovery and social transformation Notes Bibliography Index
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