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Remo
Bodei, The Logics of Delusion
Contemporary European Cultural Studies
Series editors,
Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala
An analysis of the notion of delusion provides an
exceptional opportunity to test such categories as ‘reason’,
‘truth’, ‘evidence’, ‘certainty’, ‘passion’, ‘personality’,
and ‘reality’, both as commonsensical concepts and as
philosophical ideas.
Professor Bodei examines paradoxical forms of delusion and
representations of multiple personality disorders found in
classical texts of the philosophical tradition, in
psychoanalysis, in twentieth-century psychiatry, and in
major works of European literature, in an attempt to shed
light on the logics underlying the specific modalities of
temporalization, conceptualization and argumentation
‘activated’ by delusion. He revisits the traditional
opposition of delusion viewed as synonymous with
irrationality (absurdity, groundlessness, error, chaos) and
reason viewed instead in terms of evidence (demonstrability,
truth and order) and by examining delusion both from a
cognitive and an affective perspective he discovers clear
anomalies in the categorization of its reasoning.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Legacy of the Past
Chapter 2 Digressions of Truth
Chapter 3 Truth and History
Chapter 4 Logic and Affects
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Author
Remo Bodei is professor of Philosophy at the
University of California, Los Angeles. He taught for many
years at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of
Pisa and has lectured in many European and American
universities. His books, which have been translated into
several languages, include Hölderlin: la filosofía y lo
trágico (1990); Ordo amoris (1991);
Dekompositionen.
For-men des modernen Individuums
(1996); Géometrie des passions (1997); La forma de
lo bello (1998); Destini personali (2002);
Piramidi di tempo (2006); and We, the Divided.
Ethos,
Politics and Culture in Post-War Italy
(2006).
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