A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition.The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.
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ISBN | 9780141192284 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression, SCIENCE / History, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, History of Science, Abnormal psychology, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Penguin Books |
Jahr | 20230706 |
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