Art, Crime and Madness: Gesualdo, Carravagio, Genet, Van Gogh, Artaud
Author:   Shlomo Giora Shoham
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
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9781903900062


Pages:   209
Publication Date:   01 January 2003
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Shlomo Giora Shoham
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9781903900062


ISBN 10:   1903900069
Pages:   209
Publication Date:   01 January 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword by Roger Hood; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mytho-Empiricisim; The Personality and its Disruption; Hubris, Suppression and Stigma; Don Carlo Gesualdo -- A Murdered Love; Caravaggio -- The Violent Enlightenment; Jean Genet -- A Criminal Manifesto; The Creative Villains; Genius and Madness; St. Vincent -- Absolute Authenticity; Antonin Artaud -- Outside of Time; Notes; Giora Shoham's Published Works and His Theory of Personality; Index.

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Rich in detail and psychocultural analysis this book will take its place beside Freud's Moses and other classics of art interpretation... -- Graeme R Newman, Professor, School of Criminal Justice. Broad intellectual range, curiosity, deep and profound knowledge and authenticity. The whole spirit of Shlomo Shoham's reasoning is both refreshing and challenging... -- Dr Manfred Wimmer, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.


Rich in detail and psychocultural analysis this book will take its place beside Freud's Moses and other classics of art interpretation... -- Graeme R Newman, Professor, School of Criminal Justice. Broad intellectual range, curiosity, deep and profound knowledge and authenticity. The whole spirit of Shlomo Shoham's reasoning is both refreshing and challenging... -- Dr Manfred Wimmer, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.


"""Rich in detail and psychocultural analysis this book will take its place beside Freud's Moses and other classics of art interpretation..."" -- Graeme R Newman, Professor, School of Criminal Justice. ""Broad intellectual range, curiosity, deep and profound knowledge and authenticity. The whole spirit of Shlomo Shoham's reasoning is both refreshing and challenging..."" -- Dr Manfred Wimmer, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research."


Author Information

Shlomo G. Shoham is a world renowned criminologist, recipient of the Selinglueck Award from the American Society of Criminology in 1977 and the Israel Prize Laureate for 2003. He has published some 90 books in 20 languages and 2000 articles in 30 languages in the areas of criminology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, theology and art. He has developed an interdisciplinary personality theory which is most suitable for the explanation of deviance and alienation.

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