Moody Minds Distempered - Jennifer Radden

In Moody Minds Distempered philosopher Jennifer Radden assembles several decades of her research on melancholy and depression. The chapters are ordered into three categories: those about intellectual and medical history of melancholy and depression; those that emphasize aspects of the moral psychological and medical features of these concepts; and finally those that explore the sad and apprehensive mood states long associated with melancholy and depressive subjectivity. A newly written introduction maps the conceptual landscape and draws out the analytic and thematic interconnections between the chapters. Radden emphasizes and develops several new themes: the implications theoretical phenomenological and moral of recognizing melancholy and depressive states as mood states; questions of method as they affect how we understand and characterize claims about melancholy and depression; and the persistence and force of cultural tropes linking such states to brilliance creativity and sagacity. Insights from literature and the history of medicine psychology and psychiatry are woven together with those from the more recent disciplines of feminist theory and cultural studies. This is interdisciplinary writing at its best-part analytic philosophy and part history of ideas.

TITLE: Moody Minds Distempered

AUTHOR: Jennifer Radden

SKU: 9780195338287

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press Inc

DATE PUBLISHED: 12/01/2009

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 208

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 163 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm

WEIGHT: 466 gr