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Melancholy and the otherness of God : a study of the hermeneutics of depression / Alina N. Feld.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 211 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739166055
  • 0739166050
  • 9786613635792
  • 6613635790
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Melancholy and the otherness of GodDDC classification:
  • 616.85/27 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575.M44
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Hippocratic humors, Plato's chora, and pseudo-Aristotle's question -- The mortal sins of acedia, sadness, and sloth -- Children of Saturn -- Indolence and ennui -- Infinite will, skepticism, and sublime terror -- On God's otherness -- Boredom, time, and the self -- Psychic pathos, creativity, and insight -- Postmodern depression and apocalypse -- Therapeutics of melancholy.
Summary: 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 been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressive.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)506211

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.

Hippocratic humors, Plato's chora, and pseudo-Aristotle's question -- The mortal sins of acedia, sadness, and sloth -- Children of Saturn -- Indolence and ennui -- Infinite will, skepticism, and sublime terror -- On God's otherness -- Boredom, time, and the self -- Psychic pathos, creativity, and insight -- Postmodern depression and apocalypse -- Therapeutics of melancholy.

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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 been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressive.

English.