Summary
Karl Jaspers: Strindberg and Van Gogh: an attempt at comparative pathographic analysis
Translation: Tomislav Bracanović, Željko Pavić.
The Croatian edition of Karl Jaspers' book from 1922 "Strindberg and Van Gogh: An attempt at comparative pathographic analysis" in the Croatian edition also contains Maurice Blanchot's preface to the French translation entitled "Madness par excellence" as an area of consideration, announcing that these medical, anthropological, cultural and finally philosophical problems. Jaspers observes famous names such as Strindberg, Van Gogh, Hoelderlin, Swedenborg, and incidentally Nietzsche, and finds traces of their illness (schizophrenia) in their biographies, pathographies and works, which must have reached the pinnacle of nineteenth-century European art. At the end of the book, there is also an exhaustive afterword by Danilo Pejović, which dissolves the space-time boundaries of Jaspers' observation of the above-mentioned great men and their diseases.
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