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What is madness? What if madness isn’t a defective form of reasoning, but a distinctive style of reasoning?

  Madness has always stalked the world of philosophy. David Hume and John Stuart Mill suffered nervous breakdowns in their youth. Friedrich Neitzsche experienced a mental collapse – often attributed, with little historical evidence, to the sight of a horse being flogged. A similar legend follows the German mathematician George Cantor who supposedly went mad contemplating infinity. Beyond full-blown psychosis, there is “a more common occurrence,” says Wouter Kusters. “A cert...

  Madness has always stalked the world of philosophy. David Hume and John Stuart Mill suffered nervous breakdowns in their youth. Friedrich Neitzsche experienced a mental collapse – often attributed, with little historical evidence, to the sight of a horse being flogged. A similar legend follows the German mathematician George Cantor who supposedly went mad contemplating infinity. Beyond full-blown psychosis, there is “a more common occurrence,” says Wouter Kusters. “A cert...