Description: This book aims to reflect on mental illness through considering the influence that criticism and German idealism exerted on directions of philosophical, scientific and psychoanalytical thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and which can still be perceived today.
Brief description: Francesca Iannelli is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at Roma Tre University. She was a Postdoc Research Fellow at the DLA in Marbach (2010), DAAD Research Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin (2015) and IZEA Research Fellow at the University of Halle (2017). In 2004 she was awarded the Italian House of Representatives Philosophy Prize for her doctoral dissertation, and in 2014 the DAAD Ladislao Mittner Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of German Studies.