‘Mad agency’, reflections on Goya's ‘The Madhouse’

We must remain open to revising and expanding the important but incompletely understood philosophical categories of agency and responsibility in light of what can be learned from atypical states and behaviour. A reflection on images – here, Goya's great Madhouse scene, and photographs of Mad Pr...

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Autor principal: Radden, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Cultural Reflections
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8058925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33504389
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.119
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spelling pubmed-80589252021-05-04 ‘Mad agency’, reflections on Goya's ‘The Madhouse’ Radden, Jennifer BJPsych Bull Cultural Reflections We must remain open to revising and expanding the important but incompletely understood philosophical categories of agency and responsibility in light of what can be learned from atypical states and behaviour. A reflection on images – here, Goya's great Madhouse scene, and photographs of Mad Pride events since the 1980s – is shown to provide assistance towards this end. Cambridge University Press 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8058925/ /pubmed/33504389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.119 Text en © The Author 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the same Creative Commons licence is included and the original work is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use.
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