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Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity: Soren Kierkegaard's Religious Psychology
Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity Soren Kierkegaard's Religious Psychology Author:Harvie Ferguson Melancholy and The Critique of Modernity 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 sociey. But with the emergence of modernity, melancholy has become its mos... more »t pervasive and significant experience.The affinity between melancholy and modernity is examined through a comprehensive re-examination of the writings of Soren Kierkegaard. The whole range of Kierkegaard's work is set in the context of a social and historical theory of melancholy. From this perspective Kierkegaard emerges as the most important, and the most typical, psychologist of the modern era.« less