Angels in mourning : sublime madness, ennui and melancholy in modern thought

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Angels in mourning : sublime madness, ennui and melancholy in modern thought

Roger Bartra ; [English translation by Nick Caistor]

Reaktion Books, 2018

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El duelo de los ángeles

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Originally published in Spanish in 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-159)

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Sublime madness and ennui: melancholy is a condition of imbalance, chaotic and desolate, and a keystone of modern Western thought. In Angels in Mourning, Roger Bartra explores how three lucid European thinkers - Immanuel Kant, Max Weber and Walter Benjamin - addressed the irrational and the dolorous, drawing attention to some apparently marginal aspects of their work in order to illuminate the way in which they gazed into the darkness. It is not obvious why melancholy should find such a prominent space in our society. Why did this threatening expression of langour and disorder gain such a foothold at the heart of a European culture guided by the light of rationalism? In this surprising and insightful study, Bartra considers this question through investigations of Kant, Weber and Benjamin, and suggests that one explanation may lie in the blossoming of Romanticism, that deep-seated protest against the Enlightenment and the capitalist order.

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