Summary:

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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Dewey Class: 128.37 -- Humankind

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Physical Description: 6.3"x9.3"x1.0"; 0.8 lb; 208 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2009-01-12

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