Night Vision (eBook)

Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods

Mariana Alessandri (Autor)

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2023
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24268-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can even look like mental disorders. The self-help industry, determined to sell us the promise of a brighter future, can sometimes leave us feeling ashamed that we are not more grateful, happy, or optimistic. Night Vision invites us to consider a different approach to life, one in which we stop feeling bad about feeling bad.In this powerful and disarmingly intimate book, Existentialist philosopher Mariana Alessandri draws on the stories of a diverse group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophers and writers to help us see that our suffering is a sign not that we are broken but that we are tender, perceptive, and intelligent. Thinkers such as Audre Lorde, Maria Lugones, Miguel de Unamuno, C. S. Lewis, Gloria Anzaldua, and Soren Kierkegaard sat in their anger, sadness, and anxiety until their eyes adjusted to the dark. Alessandri explains how readers can cultivate ';night vision' and discover new sides to their painful moods, such as wit and humor, closeness and warmth, and connection and clarity.Night Vision shows how, when we learn to embrace the dark, we begin to see these moodsand ourselvesas honorable, dignified, and unmistakably human.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: adage • Adult • American poetry • Andrew Solomon • Anger • angry mob • Anxiety • Asher Brown Durand • attention span • Audre Lorde • Behavior • Bipolar Disorder • black people • Blank Verse • Bullying • Capitol Police • Carne y hueso • cerebro • Clergy • Coatlicue • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • Comfort • condolences • Consumerism • coping with dark moods • Coping with Depression • Coronavirus • Covid-19 • credibility • Crying • Dark Moods • Desesperar • Duke University Press • El dolor • el duelo • El Enojo • El estoicismo • El existencialismo • El mundo zurdo • el ser humano • Emil Kraepelin • emoticon • epicurus • Ethos • Exaltation (astrology) • Existentialism • Feeling • Fireplace • Gloria Anzaldúa • Good and evil • Good cop/bad cop • Grief • hatred • Howard Thurman • huitzilopochtli • hypoglycemia • imbecile • impostor syndrome • Incest • Irony • irritation • La Ansiedad • la depresión • La desesperanza • La enfermedad mental • La inteligencia • La melancolía • Lamentar • las emociones • la tristeza • Law of attraction (New Thought) • Laziness • learning • Los malhumores • los sentimientos • Mental disorder • mental health professional • Mexican Americans • Mood (psychology) • Motivation • Mourning and Melancholia • National Women's Rights Convention • neurasthenia • night vision book • night vision princeton • Of Modern Poetry • Pain • parenting • Philosopher • Philosophy • pity • Pleasure • Podcast • Poet • Poetic tradition • Poetry • prestar atención • Prevalence • Princeton University • Prose • Protest • Psychiatry • psychologist • Racialization • Reprieve (organisation) • resentment • Rhyme • sadness • school shooting • seeing ourselves • Sentir mal • Ser roto • Shame • Sign Language • simile • social disruption • Sonnet • Søren Kierkegaard • stanza • Stoicism • subject (philosophy) • support group • Thanatopsis • The Norton Anthology of American Literature • Theory of Mind • The Other Hand • therapy • Thought • toddler • vulnerability • William Cullen Bryant • “Ya pasó
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24268-2 / 0691242682
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24268-2 / 9780691242682