A Field Guide To Melancholy - Jacky Dr. Bowring

A Field Guide To Melancholy - Jacky Dr. Bowring

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A depressive illness or a passing feeling? Mental detachment or a precursor to genius? Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human yet everything from Prozac to self help psychology books seems intent on removing all signs of sadness depression or quite simply low moods from contemporary existence. Complex and contradictory melancholy's presence weaves through the histories of both science and art. A Field Guide to Melancholy surveys this ambivalent concept and takes a journey through its articulation in a variety of languages from the Russian toska of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin to kaiho - which is expressed in the dancing of the Finnish tango. Melancholy is found in the historic traditions of death's presence in paradise the tears of nature along with nostalgia pathos and melancholy's presiding god Saturn. In contemporary society melancholy becomes a fashion statement in the subculture of the Emo whilst shelves are rife with self help books encouraging readers to overcome depression. By drawing on a range of disciplines from psychology and philosophy to architecture and design and by examining the work of creative figures as different as Ingmar Bergman Albrecht Durer WG Sebald and Tom Waits Jacky Bowring provides an original perspective on one of the most elusive enigmatic and fascinating of human conditions.

TITLE: A Field Guide To Melancholy

AUTHOR: Jacky Dr. Bowring

SKU: 9781843446231

PUBLISHER: Oldcastle Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 22/10/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 240

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 130 mm x 198 mm

WEIGHT: 226 gr

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