Screen LibraryMelancholy = Melankólia /
"Földényi's extraordinary Melancholy ... 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...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Hungarian |
| Series: |
Margellos world republic of letters book. |
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| Summary: |
"Földényi's extraordinary Melancholy ... 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."--Amazon.com. |
| Item Description: | Translation of: Melankólia. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 341 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-341). |
| ISBN: |
9780300167481 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0300167482 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | RC537 |
| CLC: | R749.4 |
| Call Number: | R749.4/F663 |
| Contents: | The initiates -- In the prison of the humors -- The excluded -- The challenge of fate -- The bribed -- Premature death of the Romantics -- Love and melancholia -- Illness -- Trembling from freedom. |