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...Going Crazy Otto Friedrich recognizes the extreme dubiousness of an inquiry into the irrational. To avoid the narrowing of scope that must occur if the subject is to be coherent and focused, he has a novel solution. He ignores definitions. This is a tinkering of philosophy because, like the child with an erector set who wants to build his skyscraper without nuts and bolts, he proposes to define madness out of nothing...
Four New York-based staffers have also put their expertise between hard covers. Frederic Golden, for six years our Science writer, explores "real mysteries, as opposed to phony ones like the Bermuda Triangle" in Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes. Senior Editor Otto Friedrich spent a year's leave working on Going Crazy, a subject he chose "because it's all around us" (see BOOKS). Staff Writer Stephen Schlesinger spent 18 monastic months writing The New Reformers, an analysis of recent liberal movements. Soon to be published is Associate Editor David Tinnin's Hit Team, the untold story...
...Friedrich surveys the field of cure from traditional psychoanalysis to vitamin therapy. He treats such ravagers of the mind as alcohol, stress, loneliness and time. But he deliberately avoids the ruts of "quasi-scientific categories." He is more comfortable in the humanities, where the trail of insanity fades into the mysteries of man's relationship with nature and his gods. Friedrich is also up on the inhumanities: for example, the Soviet Union's practice of treating some political dissidents as psychotics...
...landscapes were either writhing with fearsome organic life or else stupendous and desolate. When Frans Post, a traveling 17th century artist, painted a view of the Sao Francisco River in Bra zil, a lone capybara by a cactus tree took on the ruminative air of a Caspar Da vid Friedrich monk, contemplating the infinite. "What a fabulous and extravagant country we're in!" exclaimed the great naturalist Von Humbolt...
Philosophers of capitalism defend inequality on two grounds. Economist Friedrich A. Hayek, a Nobel Laureate, argues persuasively that the only alternative to the market's unequal apportionment of rewards is distribution of income on the basis of each person's moral worth?and who could possibly judge that fairly? Pragmatically, many theorists contend that inequality is necessary to reward with high income the initiative that produces economic growth. They add that growth makes the poor if not nearly equal to the rich, at least better off than they would be in a stagnant economy that distributed wealth equally. According...