The Resource Madness in Cold War America, (electronic resource )
Madness in Cold War America, (electronic resource )
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The item Madness in Cold War America, (electronic resource ) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America's political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the relationship between politics and culture in the United States. In linking the individual psyche to society, psychopathology contributes to issues central to post-World War II society: a dramatic extension of state power, the fate of the individual in bureaucratic society, the political function of emotions, and the limits to admissible dissent. Such vocabulary may accuse opponents of being crazy. Yet at stake is a fundamental error of judgment, for which madness provides welcome metaphors across US diplomacy and psychiatry, social movements and criticism, literature and film. In the process, major parties and whole historical eras, literary movements and social groups are declared insane. Reacting against violence at home and war abroad, countercultural authors oppose a sane madness to irrational reason--romanticizing the wisdom of the schizophrenic and paranoia's superior insight. As the Sixties give way to a plurality of lifestyles an alternative vision arrives: of a madness now become so widespread and ordinary that it may, finally, escape pathology."--Provided by publisher.--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9781315668338
- Label
- Madness in Cold War America
- Title
- Madness in Cold War America
- Subject
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- Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Metaphor -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Cold War -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Psychoses -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America's political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the relationship between politics and culture in the United States. In linking the individual psyche to society, psychopathology contributes to issues central to post-World War II society: a dramatic extension of state power, the fate of the individual in bureaucratic society, the political function of emotions, and the limits to admissible dissent. Such vocabulary may accuse opponents of being crazy. Yet at stake is a fundamental error of judgment, for which madness provides welcome metaphors across US diplomacy and psychiatry, social movements and criticism, literature and film. In the process, major parties and whole historical eras, literary movements and social groups are declared insane. Reacting against violence at home and war abroad, countercultural authors oppose a sane madness to irrational reason--romanticizing the wisdom of the schizophrenic and paranoia's superior insight. As the Sixties give way to a plurality of lifestyles an alternative vision arrives: of a madness now become so widespread and ordinary that it may, finally, escape pathology."--Provided by publisher.--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dunst, Alexander,
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
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- Routledge Studies in Cultural History
- T&F EBS eBooks
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Metaphor
- Politics and culture
- Popular culture
- Counterculture
- United States
- Cold War
- Psychoses
- United States
- Label
- Madness in Cold War America, (electronic resource )
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781315668338
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781315668338
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1014365075
- Label
- Madness in Cold War America, (electronic resource )
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 9781315668338
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781315668338
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1014365075
Subject
- Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Metaphor -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Cold War -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Psychoses -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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