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<h1>Outsider Theory</h1>
<h2>Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas</h2>
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<div class="pub"><strong>2018</strong></div>
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<p>Jonathan P. Eburne</p>
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A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to
outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
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<em>Outsider Theory</em> 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.
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A bracing challenge to academic squeamishness, <em>Outsider
Theory</em> 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.
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John Wilkinson, University of Chicago
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