Madness: a philosophical exploration

Part I: The dual teleology of madness --

Hippocrates and the magicians --

The suffocation of the mother --

Madness as misuse and defect --

An infinitely wise contrivance --

Part II: Madness and the sound mind --

A temporary surrogate of reason --

The mountebanks of the mind --

The miracle of sanity --

Delusion as castle and refuge --

A salutary effort of nature --

The biologization of Kant --

Part III: Madness and the goal of evolution --

The strategies of wish-fulfillment --

Madness as creativity and conquest --

From retreat to resistance --

Confronting the wounded animal --

The Darwinization Of madness.