The Anatomy of Melancholy

Autori

• Robert Burton

Parametri

• 1424 pagine
• 50 ore di lettura

• Depressione
• Letteratura inglese
• Psicologia
• Saggistica
• Tematica filosofica

Maggiori informazioni sul libro

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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2023

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