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Melancholic Joy
On Life Worth Living
Seiten
2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17773-4 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17773-4 (ISBN)
Today, we find ourselves surrounded by numerous reasons to despair, from loneliness, suffering and death at an individual level to societal alienation, oppression, sectarian conflict and war. No honest assessment of life can take place without facing up to these facts and it is not surprising that more and more people are beginning to suspect that the human story will end in tragedy.
However, this focus on despair does not paint a complete and accurate picture of reality, which is also inflected with beauty and goodness. Working with examples from poetry and literature, including Virginia Woolf and Jack Gilbert and the films of Terrence Malick, Melancholic Joy offers an honest assessment of the human condition. It unflinchingly acknowledges the everyday frustrations and extraordinary horrors that generate despair and argues that the appropriate response is to take up joy again, not in an attempt to ignore or dismiss evil, but rather as part of a “melancholic joy” that accepts the mystery of a world both beautiful and brutal.
However, this focus on despair does not paint a complete and accurate picture of reality, which is also inflected with beauty and goodness. Working with examples from poetry and literature, including Virginia Woolf and Jack Gilbert and the films of Terrence Malick, Melancholic Joy offers an honest assessment of the human condition. It unflinchingly acknowledges the everyday frustrations and extraordinary horrors that generate despair and argues that the appropriate response is to take up joy again, not in an attempt to ignore or dismiss evil, but rather as part of a “melancholic joy” that accepts the mystery of a world both beautiful and brutal.
Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Charles S. Casassa Chair of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, USA. Among his previous books are Emplotting Virtue, Aspects of Alterity, as well as Carnal Hermeneutics and Interpreting Nature.
Introduction
Chapter One: We Perish, Each Alone
Chapter Two: Joy and the Myopia of Finitude
Chapter Three: From Mortality to Vitality: Carnal, Seraphic Bodies
Chapter Four: Hoping in the Dark
Chapter Five: Amor Mundi
Chapter Six: Melancholic Joy
Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 404 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-17773-3 / 1350177733 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-17773-4 / 9781350177734 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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