num_pages: 192
description: A brilliantly original book from one of the 20th century's most influential psychiatrists that goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation to make a convincing case for the "madness of morality."R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, The Politics of Experience is a classic of genuine importance that will "excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected." (Rollo May, Saturday Review )
language: English
title: The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
titlecomplete: The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
genres: Sociology, Psychology, Science, Theory, Philosophy, Essays, Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1929
publisher: Pantheon