Melancholy and the critique of modernity
Subtitle: Søren Kierkegaard's religious psychology
By: Harvie Ferguson.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.; Psychology, Religious.; Melancholy.
Description: The affinity between melancholy and modernity is examined through a comprehensive re-examination of the writings of Soren Kierkegaard. The whole range of Kierkegaard's work is set in the context of a social and historical theory of melancholy. From this perspective Kierkegaard emerges as the most important and the most typical, psychologist of the modern era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-281) and indexes.