Abjection and Abandonment Melancholy in Philosophy and Art
This book provides a thorough and insightful examination of melancholy in philosophy and art. Since the advent of “philosophy,” the question of melancholy has been intimately connected with creativity. In addition, melancholy has taken on a new importance
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bjection and Abandonment Melancholy in Philosophy and Art
Abjection and Abandonment
Saitya Brata Das Editor
Abjection and Abandonment Melancholy in Philosophy and Art
Editor Saitya Brata Das Centre for English Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, Delhi, India
ISBN 978-981-15-1028-1 ISBN 978-981-15-1029-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1029-8
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Preface
For long, since the inception of “philosophy”, the question of melancholy is intimately connected with creativity. Thus, Aristotle could say that creative people— poets and philosophers—are melancholic people. The great Renaissance thinker, the Platonist par excellence, Marsilio Ficcino reinterprets this idea in his own terms and in his own manner: one who is born under Saturn tends to be melancholic, and such an individual also tends to be philosophical. There is a certain austerity and severity and something hermetic about this mysterious planet Saturn which was considered to be the farthest planet in the solar system in those days: like the slow movement of Saturn and its irreducible distance, the philosopher is slow and distant, looking at the farthest horizon of being. But this affirmative or positive idea of melancholy is not the only one in its history: it passes
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