This work examines the connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy. The idea of sadness without a cause has played an important part in human self-understanding throughout the development of Western society. But with the emergence of modernity, melancholy has become its most pervasive and significant experience.
This work examines the connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy. The idea of sadness without a cause has p...
'Identity' and 'selfhood' are terms used routinely throughout the human sciences that seek to analyze and describe the character of everyday life and experience. Yet these terms are seldom defined or used with any precision, and scant regard is paid to the historical and cultural context in which they arose or to which they are applied.
This innovative book provides fresh historical insights in terms of the emergence, development, and interrelationship of specific and varied notions of identity and selfhood, and outlines a new sociological framework for...
'Identity' and 'selfhood' are terms used routinely throughout the human sciences that seek to analyze and describe the character of everyday lif...
