Title: Melancholy and The Critique of Modernity
First published: December 13, 1994
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.
Subjects: Melancholy, Psychology, Religious, Religious Psychology, Moderniteit, Melancholie, Mélancolie, Religion, Psychologie religieuse, Religionspsychologie, Godsdienstpsychologie, Kierkegaard, soren, 1813-1855, Psychology of religion
People: Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
LC classification: B4378.R44 F47 1995