{"id":82,"date":"2019-06-07T19:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T02:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2026-05-31T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:11:51","slug":"henry-james","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/essays\/henry-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this essay, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=82&amp;action=edit\">The Taboo of Experience<\/a>,&#8221; I use madness as method, processing in a kind of paranoid proof the experiences that led to my first psychotic break, which happened when I was teaching American Studies in Germany at the beginning of the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a heady mix: Heidegger, Friedl, James, Coleridge, Beck, Stevens, and quite a few more. The connections make more sense to me than they probably will to any other reader, which is why I call it a paranoid proof, but it is a proof nevertheless &#8212; and the conclusion it led me to, that our cosmopolitan commitments, should we have them, are inextricable from our national identities, still seems to me utterly sane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this essay, &#8220;The Taboo of Experience,&#8221; I use madness as method, processing in a kind of paranoid proof the experiences that led to my first psychotic break, which happened when I was teaching American Studies in Germany at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It&#8217;s a heady mix: Heidegger, Friedl, James, Coleridge, Beck, Stevens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}