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On the Logics of Delusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Remo Bodei
Remo Bodei*
Affiliation:
University of Pisa
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Abstract

Delusion is an exceptional test case for the principal categories of common sense and philosophical thought such as ‘reason’, ‘truth’ and ‘reality’. Via an engagement with the legacy of Freud and the most remarkable results of 20th-century psychiatry, the author's aim is to analyse the paradoxical forms of delusion and to shed light on the logics that underlie and orient its specific modalities of temporalization, conceptualization and argumentation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , November 2004 , pp. 37 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2004

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Notes

The original text of this article is in Italian. When it was presented as a lecture in the context of a colloquium on ‘Madness and Philosophy’ organized by the Society for European Philosophy at Staffordshire University in 2001, it was translated into English by David Webb. It was next translated into French for Diogène by Jean Pascaud, with Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat translating additional material from Italian. This version was translated into English for this issue by Jean Burrell.

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12. For a better understanding of this text, see Bodei, R. (2002) Logiques du délire. Raison, affects, folie, Paris, Aubier/Philosophie. This is a French translation of Bodei, R. (2001), Le logiche del delirio. Ragione affetti, follia, Rome and Bari, Laterza, by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, to whom we extend our warmest thanks for his friendship and assistance. See also (1995) Le Prix de la liberté. Aux origines de la hiérarchie sociale chez Hegel, Paris, Cerf; (1997) Géométrie des passions. Peur, espoir, bonheur; de la philosophie à l’usage politique, Paris, PUF; (1999) La Philosophie au XXe siècle, Paris, Champs-Flammarion.