Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst
for political renewal Melancholia 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
perpectives 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2024 |
| Authors: |
George Edmondson
• Klaus Mladek
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-25130-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-691-25130-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780691251301 |
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