by Robert Burton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781150489440
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«The Anatomy of Melancholy» is a philosophical essay by Robert Burton, published by General Books in paperback (in English).
The author analyses melancholy as a complex phenomenon: he reviews its possible causes, symptoms and remedies, and approaches it from philosophy, medicine and literature. The work combines erudition and reflection on the human condition, and is a classic within Western thought and the history of ideas.
The 2009 edition has ISBN-10 1150489448 and is catalogued as a classic of literature and philosophy.
For readers interested in philosophy, classical literature and the history of psychology.
Robert Burton was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopaedic The Anatomy of Melancholy.
