The Nature of Melancholy

From Aristotle to Kristeva

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2002
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780195151657 (ISBN)

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Spanning 24 centuries, this interdisciplinary anthology collects over 30 pieces of Western writing about melancholy and related conditions. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work.

Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. Editor Jennifer Radden provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression. This important new collection is also beautifully illustrated with depictions of melancholy from Western fine art.

Jennifer Radden is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

PART 1: ARISTOTLE TO FREUD; PART 2: AFTER FREUD

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.5.2002
Zusatzinfo	numerous halftones and line drawings
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 233 mm
Gewicht	603 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
ISBN-13	9780195151657 / 9780195151657
Zustand	Neuware