{"product_id":"melancholy-and-the-otherness-of-god-a-study-of-the-hermeneutics-of-depression-9780739166031","title":"Melancholy and the Otherness of God: A Study of the Hermeneutics of Depression","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alina N. Feld\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Metaphysics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressively acknowledged as constitutive of subjectivity as such, a trace of divine otherness and pathos, and that the effort to transcend melancholy-like Perseus vanquishing Medusa-is a necessary labor of maturing self-consciousness. Reductive attempts to eliminate it, besides being dangerously utopian, risk overcoming the labor of the soul that makes us human. This study sets forth a rigorous scholarly argument that spans several disciplines, including philosophy, theology, psychology, and literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47577391333527,"sku":"9780739166031","price":12701.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780739166031.webp?v=1774903324","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/melancholy-and-the-otherness-of-god-a-study-of-the-hermeneutics-of-depression-9780739166031","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}