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  1. A politics of melancholia
    from Plato to Arendt
    Author: Edmondson, George; Mladek, Klaus
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    "This monograph argues that melancholia is not an affliction in need of a remedy but instead the contemplative attitude that forms the basis of philosophical inquiry"-- Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    2024 A 3638
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    "This monograph argues that melancholia is not an affliction in need of a remedy but instead the contemplative attitude that forms the basis of philosophical inquiry"-- Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewalMelancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from community. Countering that misconception, A Politics of Melancholia reclaims an understanding of melancholia not as an affliction in need of a remedy but as an affirmative stance toward decay and ruination in political life, and restores the melancholic figure-by turns inventive and destructive, outraged and inspired-to their rightful place as the poet of political thought.George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek identify pivotal moments of political melancholia in ancient and modern texts, offering new perspectives on the death of Socrates in Plato s dialogues, the fratricide in Hamlet, Woyzeck s killing of Marie in Georg Büchner s Woyzeck, the murder of Moses in Freud s thought, and the betrayal of the revolutionary idea that Hannah Arendt identifies in her critique of eighteenth-century revolutions. Melancholia emerges here as a disposition that is mournful but also jubilant, a mood of unbending disconsolation that remains faithful to a scene of downfall, to events that cannot be forgotten, and to things that cannot be governed.Recovering a tradition of thought that is both affirmative and hopeful, this eloquent book reveals how political melancholia embodies a shared condition of discontent that binds communities together and inspires change

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780691251295; 9780691251301
    Subjects: Melancholy (Philosophy); Melancholy in literature; Political science; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions; Literature: history & criticism; PHI040000; PHILOSOPHY / Political; PHILOSOPHY / Social; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik; Psychologie: Emotionen; Psychology: emotions; Social & political philosophy; Soziale und politische Philosophie
    Scope: 291 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    The eros of stasis : Plato's melancholic republic -- Hamlet, the melancholic prince -- Woyzeck is the worst -- The melancholic transformation of Doctor Sigmund Freud -- Melancholia under capitalism : Marx, Schumpeter, Adorno -- Arendt's melancholic revolution.
  2. <<A>> politics of melancholia
    from Plato to Arendt
    Author: Edmondson, George; Mladek, Klaus
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton ; Oxford

    Location:
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780691251295; 9780691251301
    Subjects: Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik; Psychologie: Emotionen; Soziale und politische Philosophie
    Scope: viii, 291 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index