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Moody Minds Distempered
Jennifer Radden
其他書名
Essays on Melancholy and Depression
出版Oxford University Press, 2009-01-12
主題Philosophy / Mind & BodyPsychology / EmotionsPsychology / Cognitive Psychology & CognitionMedical / History
ISBN01997136429780199713646
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=muFvowFFpqUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.