Winter acumen and mood disorder

Apollo, Dionysus and Foucault's history of madness

pp. 51-65

in: Abraham Akkerman, Phenomenology of the Winter-city, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

Through the hundreds of thousands of years of exploration and big-game hunting during the Late Pleistocene, and through warfare, and the construction of fortified settlements during the Neolithic, the myth of the Hero was forged as a universal masculine paradigm. Addressing the requisite for defense, the Hero was also at the overt beginnings of early cities during the late Neolithic.