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• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• File Size : 49,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2007

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

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 35,6 Mb
• Release Date : 05 December 2016

Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 48,5 Mb
• Release Date : 03 March 2016

Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that modern scholars often treat the Anatomy as an

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 35,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 April 2016

Bernadette Höfer's innovative and ambitious monograph argues that the epistemology of the Cartesian mind/body dualism, and its insistence on the primacy of analytic thought over bodily function, has

• Publisher : St. Martin's Press
• File Size : 37,5 Mb
• Release Date : 10 October 2017

An inspiring, dynamic way to reimagine aging, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul.

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 54,8 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2005

Every human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. How you think about this rhythm of moods

• Publisher : Harper Perennial
• File Size : 43,6 Mb
• Release Date : 26 January 1994

This New York Times bestseller (more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold) provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 46,5 Mb
• Release Date : 12 April 2011

Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and

• Publisher : Lexington Books
• File Size : 22,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Spirituality is about fire and light, purity and will. Melancholy is more about mist and rain, the softness and intimacy of dusk. Melancholy is the middle way, the valley way,