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  Outsider Theory


    Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas

*2018*
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Author:

Jonathan P. Eburne

Outsider Theory

A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish 
thinking as to dominant ideologies

/Outsider Theory/ is a timely book about outlandish ideas, bringing 
readers on an adventure in intellectual history that stresses the 
urgency of taking seriously ideas that might otherwise be regarded as 
errant, unfashionable, or even unreasonable. It shows how crucial it is 
to know how and why such ideas have left their impression on modern-day 
thinking and continue to shape its evolution.

A bracing challenge to academic squeamishness, /Outsider Theory/ is a 
learned, mischievous, and fascinating book that makes a compelling 
argument for the positive role of fraud, failure, and error in knowledge 
production. Outsider art, writing, and thinking can no longer be neatly 
quarantined in isolated and eccentric individuals, but must be 
recognized as thoroughly implicated in mass culture, scholarship, 
laboratory work, and critical theory.

—

John Wilkinson, University of Chicago

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