Brian Treanor

Melancholic Joy

On Life Worth Living. Sprachen: Englisch. 14,6 cm / 22,3 cm / 1,9 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 224 Seiten
EAN 9781350177734
Veröffentlicht Januar 2021
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Auch erhältlich als:

eBook (epub)
26,49
93,00 inkl. MwSt.
Teilen
Beschreibung

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.

Portrait

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Hersteller
Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1

DE - 36244 Bad Hersfeld

E-Mail: gpsr@libri.de

Das könnte Sie auch interessieren

Leïla Slimani
Schaut, wie wir tanzen
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
11,99
Eva von Redecker
Dieser Drang nach Härte
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
19,99
Ulrike Herrmann
Geld als Waffe
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
22,99
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
22,99
Rebekka Endler
Witches, Bitches, It-Girls
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
21,99
Anne Brorhilker
Cum/Ex, Milliarden und Moral
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
20,99
Florian Illies
Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
12,99
Ewald Arenz
Die Liebe an miesen Tagen
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
10,99
Claudia Kemfert
Kurzschluss
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
23,99
Florian Illies
1913
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Henning Sußebach
Anna oder: Was von einem Leben bleibt
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
19,99
Katrin Eigendorf
Erzählen, was ist
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
18,99
Lea Ypi
Frei
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
13,99
Elizabeth Strout
Die Unvollkommenheit der Liebe
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Natalie Amiri
Der Nahost-Komplex
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
21,99
Peter Sloterdijk
Der Fürst und seine Erben
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
18,99
Andreas Fulda
Wenn China angreift
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
15,99
Odd Arne Westad
Der Kalte Krieg
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
30,99
Harald Jähner
Wunderland
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
19,99
Viktor E. Frankl
...trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Katharina Zweig
Weiß die KI, dass sie nichts weiß?
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
7,99
Angela Merkel
Freiheit
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
29,99
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
16,99
Uwe Wittstock
Marseille 1940
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
19,99
Nicholas Potter
Die neue autoritäre Linke
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
14,99
Richard J. Evans
Das Dritte Reich
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
6,99
Christopher Clark
Skandal in Königsberg
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
21,99
Gustav Seibt
Ein Sommer mit Goethe
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
21,99
Roberto Simanowski
Sprachmaschinen
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
19,99
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
11,99
Florence Gaub
Zukunft
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
11,99
Bernhard Schlink
Gerechtigkeit
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
21,99
Sharon Penman
Thronräuber
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
14,99
Gilda Sahebi
Verbinden statt spalten
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
19,99
Siegfried Lenz
Deutschstunde
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
10,99
Stephanie Schuster
Die Wunderfrauen
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99