The Language of Melancholy
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| Název: | The Language of Melancholy |
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| Autoři: | Vinkesteijn, Robert |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Oxford: Taylor & Francis; Routledge, 2025. |
| Rok vydání: | 2025 |
| Sbírka: | Books Imported or submitted locally |
| Original Material: | da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb |
| Témata: | depression, Cultural History, History of Psychiatry, depressive disorders, melancholic, Social and cultural history, Historiography, History of medicine, European history |
| Popis: | This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a concept transmitted for millennia through a living tradition involving philosophers, physicians, poets, theologians, novelists and artists. Over the years, varied analogies, metaphors, images and ideas amassed around this notion of melancholy, and those suffering from it had powerful means to speak and write about their experiences. After the discarding of melancholy as a diagnostic entity in the 20th century for the specialized professional discourse of anxiety and depressive disorders, this rich language, unfortunately, also disappeared from the public eye. Vinkesteijn reexamines the philosophical and existential value of this language, drawing the figures and images of its tradition out of the shadows, and showcasing its beauty and expressive potential in their own words. This volume will be of interest to a broad audience of academics, students, and general readers interested in the history of ideas, philosophy, psychiatry, mental illness, and the historical and contemporary cultural discourse of depressive disorders. |
| Contents Note: | ... |
| Druh dokumentu: | book |
| Popis souboru: | application/pdf |
| Jazyk: | English |
| ISBN: | 978-1-04-044897-7 978-1-00-349163-7 978-1-04-044904-2 978-1-03-278670-4 978-1-03-278671-1 1-04-044897-6 1-00-349163-4 1-04-044904-2 1-03-278670-1 1-03-278671-X |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003491637 |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106162 |
| Rights: | URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
| Poznámky: | ONIX_20250929T134543_9781040448977_18 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106162 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsoap.20.500.12657.106162 |
| Databáze: | OAPEN Library |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a concept transmitted for millennia through a living tradition involving philosophers, physicians, poets, theologians, novelists and artists. Over the years, varied analogies, metaphors, images and ideas amassed around this notion of melancholy, and those suffering from it had powerful means to speak and write about their experiences. After the discarding of melancholy as a diagnostic entity in the 20th century for the specialized professional discourse of anxiety and depressive disorders, this rich language, unfortunately, also disappeared from the public eye. Vinkesteijn reexamines the philosophical and existential value of this language, drawing the figures and images of its tradition out of the shadows, and showcasing its beauty and expressive potential in their own words. This volume will be of interest to a broad audience of academics, students, and general readers interested in the history of ideas, philosophy, psychiatry, mental illness, and the historical and contemporary cultural discourse of depressive disorders. |
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| ISBN: | 9781040448977 9781003491637 9781040449042 9781032786704 9781032786711 1040448976 1003491634 1040449042 1032786701 103278671X |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003491637 |