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Moody Minds Distempered - Essays on Melancholy and Depression (Hardcover, New)
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Moody Minds Distempered - Essays on Melancholy and Depression (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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