The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

1376 Seiten

2021
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-53375-8 (ISBN)

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Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Burton's masterpiece, this fully edited, modern edition is published as a landmark hardback volume in Penguin Classics.

Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, demons, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated figures from Samuel Johnson to Jorge Luis Borges since the seventeenth century, and remains an incomparable examination of the human condition in all its flawed, endless variety.

Edited with an introduction and notes by Angus Gowland

'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

Robert Burton (Author) Robert Burton (1577-1640) spent most of his life in Oxford, first as a student and later as a scholar. His most famous work, the enormous Anatomy of Melancholy, was first published in 1621 and expanded in further editions throughout Burton's life. Angus Gowland (External Editor) Angus Gowland is a Reader in Intellectual History at University College London.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	1371 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-241-53375-9 / 0241533759
ISBN-13	978-0-241-53375-8 / 9780241533758
Zustand	Neuware