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Can I read A Field Guide to Melancholy on EtoBox?
A Field Guide to Melancholy by Jacky Bowring is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Field Guide to Melancholy about?
A depressive illness or a passing feeling? Mental detachment or a precursor to genius? Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything from Prozac to self-help psychology books seems intent on removing all signs of sadness from contemporary existence.__A Field Guide to Melancholy__ surveys this ambivalent concept and takes a journey through the articulation of melancholy in a variety of languages, from the Russian toska of Pushkin’s __Eugene Onegin__ to kaihowhich is expressed in the dancing of the Finnish tango. Melancholy is found in the historic traditions of death’s presence in paradise, the tears of nature, along with nostalgia, pathos, and melancholy’s presiding god, Saturn. In contemporary society, melancholy becomes a fashion statement in the emo subculture. This guide finds melancholy within the work of writers such as W. G. Sebald and Jean-Paul Sartre, the art of photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto and multi-media artist Gerhard Richter, the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Patrick Keiller, the music of Erik Satie and Tom Waits, the architecture and landscapes of ruins, and the 21st century’s predilection for memorials.
Who reads A Field Guide to Melancholy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jacky Bowring
- Publisher
- Oldcastle Books
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781842432921
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Psychology, Fiction, Self Help
- Rating
- 3.53 / 5 (56 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13