"This book offers an original account of the development of literary biography in the long eighteenth century and reveals different ways in which biographers probed the inner life through writers' melancholy. The first half tracks the unstable status of melancholy in biographica…
Le plus insupportable dans la perte, serait-ce la perte de vue? Annoncerait-elle, chez l'autre, l'absolu retrait d'amour et, en nous, l'inquiétude d'une infirmité : ne pas être capable d'aimer l'invisible? Si la psychanalyse est convoquée ici, ce n'est pas comme regard théorique…
This book offers both an introduction to the methods and language of moral psychology as a philosophical field, and to sadness as an emotion.
Bringing together the experiences of mistrust, jealousy, lack of love, shamelessness, regret, and despair, this far-reaching book elucidates human sorrow in striking sociocultural and clinical details.
