{"product_id":"9780739182079","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":52279343841591,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":319.39,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780739182079-1.jpg?v=1783122297","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780739182079","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}