Melancholy and Society by Judith N. Shklar, Wolf Lepenies

Melancholy and Society

Judith N. Shklar, Wolf Lepenies

253 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

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Lepenies makes inventive use of an extraordinary range of sociological, philosophical, and literary sources, from Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy to the ideas of contemporary theorists such as Robert K. Merton and Arnold Gehlen. His study ga...

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