A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century. Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 poem “Howl” opens with one of the most resonant phrases in modern poetry: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” Thirty years later, Ginsberg entrusted a Columbia University medical student with materials not shared with anyone else, including psychiatric records that documented how he and his mother, Naomi Ginsberg, struggled with mental illness. In Best Minds, psychiatrist, researcher, and scholar Stevan M. Weine, M.D., who was that medical student, examines how Allen Ginsberg took his visions and psychiatric hospitalization, his mother’s devastating illness, confinement, and lobotomy, and the social upheavals of the postwar world and imaginatively transformed them. Though madness is often linked with hardship and suffering, Ginsberg’s showed how it could also lead to profound and redemptive aesthetic, spiritual, and social changes. Through his revolutionary poetry and social advocacy, Ginsberg dedicated himself to leading others toward new ways of being human and easing pain. Throughout his celebrated career Ginsberg made us feel as though we knew everything there was to know about him. However, much has been left out about his experiences growing up with a mentally ill mother, his visions, and his psychiatric hospitalization. In Best Minds, with a forty-year career studying and addressing trauma, Weine provides a groundbreaking exploration of the poet and his creative process especially in relation to madness. Best Minds examines the complex relationships between mental illness, psychiatry, trauma, poetry, and prophecy—using the access Ginsberg generously shared to offer new, lively, and indispensable insights into an American icon. Weine also provides new understandings of the paternalism, treatment failures, ethical lapses, and limitations of American psychiatry in the 1940s and 1950s. In light of these new discoveries, the challenges Ginsberg faced appear starker and his achievements, both as a poet and an advocate, even more remarkable.
Автор: Michael Barthorp Название: The British Army on Campaign (1) ISBN: 0850457939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780850457933 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers a collection of original studies on Xunzi, a leading classical Confucian thinker, and on other aspects of Chinese philosophy. While each essay individually makes an important contribution to the study of Chinese philosophy, the book as a whole represents a major scholarly achievement. Throughout, the methodology exemplifies a constructive interpretation and analysis of major concepts.
Автор: Dillon John Название: All at Sea ISBN: 1912866676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912866670 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4744.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How the British Army relied on the Navy for support during the American Revolutionary War.
Автор: Hynson, Rachel Название: Cambridge latin american studies ISBN: 1107188679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107188679 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5702.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state, drawing on Cuban newspapers and periodicals, government documents and speeches, long-overlooked laws, and oral histories.
Автор: Campbell, Ballard C. Название: The paradox of power ISBN: 0700632565 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700632565 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4764.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: America’s political history is a fascinating paradox. The United States was born with the admonition that government posed a threat to liberty. This apprehension became the foundation of the nation’s civic ideology and was embedded in its constitutional structure. Yet the history of public life in the United States records the emergence of an enormously powerful national state during the nineteenth century. By 1920, the United States was arguably the most powerful country in the world. In The Paradox of Power Ballard C. Campbell traces this evolution and offers an explanation for how it occurred.Campbell argues that the state in America is rooted in the country’s colonial experience and analyzes the evidence for this by reviewing governance at all levels of the American polity—local, state, and national—between 1754 and 1920. Campbell poses five critical causal references: war, geography, economic development, culture and identity (including citizenship and nationalism), and political capacity. This last factor embraces law and constitutionalism, administration, and political parties. The Paradox of Power makes a major contribution to our understanding of American statebuilding by emphasizing the fundamental role of local and state governance to successfully integrate urban, state, and national governments to create a composite and comprehensive portrait of how governance evolved in America.
Описание: Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda.
Автор: Jones, David M Название: When Ads Work ISBN: 0765617382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765617385 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 30624.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Harrison Steve Название: Changing the World Is the Only Fit Work for a Grown Man ISBN: 0957151500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957151505 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4148.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Jones, David M Название: When Ads Work ISBN: 0765617390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765617392 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 10104.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Reichert, Tom Название: Sex in Advertising ISBN: 0805841180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805841183 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8114.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Bivins, Tom Название: Mixed Media ISBN: 103226960X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032269603 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Dan Augustine, Jean Grow, Joanna L. Jenkins, Tom Altstiel Название: Advertising Creative: Strategy, Copy, and Design ISBN: 1071846655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781071846650 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 23285.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Advertising Creative, Sixth Edition gets right to the point of advertising by stressing key principles and practical information students and working professionals can use.
ООО "Логосфера " Тел:+7(495) 980-12-10 www.logobook.ru
