{"product_id":"9780739166031","title":"Melancholy and the Otherness of God : A Study in the Genealogy, Hermeneutics, and Therapeutics of Depression","description":"\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":"Default Title","offer_id":48684544884971,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":238.05,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780739166031-1.jpg?v=1781634279","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780739166031","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}