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Author : Bettina Prato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3507360
Author : Jean-Philippe Mathy
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271037844
The current cultural climate in France is often described as one of &“d&éclinisme&” or &“sinistrose,&” a mixture of pessimism about the national future, nostalgia for the past, and a sinister sense of irreversible decline concerning the present. The notion of &“democratic melancholia&” has become widely popular, cropping up time and again in academic papers and newspaper articles. In Melancholy Politics, Jean-Philippe Mathy examines the development of this disenchanted mood in the works of prominent French philosophers, historians, and sociologists since the beginning of the 1980s. This period represents a significant turning point in French intellectual life, as the legacy of major postwar and sixties theorists such as L&évi-Strauss, Derrida, and Foucault was increasingly challenged by a younger generation of authors who repudiated both Marxism and structuralism. The book is not a classic intellectual or cultural history of post-1968 France, but rather a contribution to the understanding of the present&—a collection of soundings into what remains largely a complex, ongoing process.
Author : Adam Kitzes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135503079
During the so-called Age of Melancholy, many writers invoked both traditional and new conceptualizations of the disease in order to account for various types of social turbulence, ranging from discontent and factionalism to civil war. Writing about melancholy became a way to explore both the causes and preventions of political disorder, on both specific and abstract levels. Thus, at one and the same moment, a writer could write about melancholy to discuss specific and ongoing political crises and to explore more generally the principles which generate political conflicts in the first place. In the course of developing a traditional discourse of melancholy of its own, English writers appropriated representations of the disease - often ineffectively - in order to account for the political turbulence during the civil war and Interregnum periods
Author : László F. Földényi (Foldenyi)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300220698
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy’s ambiguities. Along the way Földényi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life. Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find entry to some of the deepest questions one’s life. This distinguished translation brings Földényi’s work directly to English-language readers for the first time.
Author : Jennifer Radden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0195151658
Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over 30 pieces of Western writing about melancholy and related conditions. It unravels an ongoing conversation across centuries and continents as thinkers interpret, respond, and build on each other's work.
Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112046462112
Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Depression, Mental
ISBN : MINN:31951002463693X
Author : Joshua Wolf Shenk
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547526898
A nuanced psychological portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk’s Lincoln’s Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the President’s character and his leadership. Mired in personal suffering as a young man, Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health. Shenk draws on seven years of research from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of Lincoln’s unhappiness. In the process, Shenk discovers that the President’s coping strategies—among them, a rich sense of humor and a tendency toward quiet reflection—ultimately helped him to lead the nation through its greatest turmoil. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post Book World, Atlanta Journal-Constituion, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette As Featured on the History Channel documentary Lincoln “Fresh, fascinating, provocative.”—Sanford D. Horwitt, San Francisco Chronicle “Some extremely beautiful prose and fine political rhetoric and leaves one feeling close to Lincoln, a considerable accomplishment.”—Andrew Solomon, New York Magazine “A profoundly human and psychologically important examination of the melancholy that so pervaded Lincoln's life.”—Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author of An Unquiet Mind
Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10471155
Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1638
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z165294305
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1638
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021113051
Author : Donald W. Livingston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226519210
The Scottish philosopher David Hume is commonly understood as the original proponent of the "end of philosophy." In this powerful new study, Donald Livingston completely revises our understanding of Hume's thought through his investigation of Hume's distinction between "true" and "false" philosophy. For Hume, false philosophy leads either to melancholy over the groundlessness of common opinion or delirium over transcending it, while true philosophy leads to wisdom. Livingston traces this distinction through all of Hume's writings, providing a systematic pathology of the corrupt philosophical consciousness in history, politics, philosophy, and literature that characterized Hume's own time as well as ours. By demonstrating how a philosophical method can be used to expose the political motivations behind intellectual positions, historical events, and their subsequent interpretations, Livingston revitalizes Hume's thought and reveals its relevance for contemporary dicussions of politics, nationalism, and ideology for the first time.
Author : David Kyuman Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198043171
Why does agency -- the capacity to make choices and to act in the world -- matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity, that they embody what we value? What kinds of motivations are available for political agency and judgment in an age that lacks the enthusiasm associated with the great emancipatory movements for civil rights and gender equality? What are the conditions for the possibility of being an effective agent when the meaning of democracy has become less transparent? David Kyuman Kim addresses these crucial questions by uncovering the political, moral, philosophical, and religious dimensions of human agency. Kim treats agency as a form of religious experience that reflects implicit and explicit notions of the good. Of particular concern are the moral, political, and religious motivations that underpin an understanding of agency as meaningful action. Through a critical engagement with the work of theorists such as Judith Butler, Charles Taylor, and Stanley Cavell, Kim argues that late modern and postmodern agency is found most effectively at work in what he calls "projects of regenerating agency" or critical and strategic responses to loss. Agency as melancholic freedom begins and endures, Kim maintains, through the moral and psychic losses associated with a broad range of experiences, including the moral identities shaped by secularized modernity and the multifold forms of alienation experienced by those who suffer the indignities of racial, gender, class, and sexuality discrimination and oppression. Kim calls for renewing the sense of urgency in our political and moral engagements by seeing agency as a vocation, where the aspiration for self-transformation and the human need for hope are fundamental concerns.
Author : Jeremy Schmidt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0754657485
This book furthers our understanding of the issue of melancholy in early modern culture by examining the extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century religious and moral philosophical publications, many of which have receive
Author : Garnet Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063964756