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- 1424 Seiten
- 50 Lesestunden
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A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Robert Burton
- Verlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 1424
- ISBN10
- 0141192283
- ISBN13
- 9780141192284
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Philosophie, Psychologie, Englische Literatur, Depression, Traurigkeit, Der menschliche Geist, Melancholie
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1621
- Originaltitel
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Bewertung
- 4,15 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.