Sceptical Perspectives on Melancholy: Burton, Swift, Pope, Sterne

Personal Perspectives on Allen Burton.

8 James Mastro is with the Department of Professional Education at Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN. Daryl E. Miller is a Special Education Director at Robbinsdale Area Schools in New Hope, MN. Carol Leitschuh is with the Dept. of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Barry Lavay is with the Department of Kinesiology and PE at California State University at Long Beach. P...

Nightmares and hobbyhorses. Swift, Sterne, and Augustan ideas of madness

Neuroeconomics: A sceptical view

Neuroeconomics has been hailed by its advocates as affording “ground-breaking” insights into human behaviour and significant theoretical advances through conceptual trading with neuroscience. The prospect of the discovery of the proximate causes of behaviour by measuring thoughts, feelings, and hence utility is, according to neuroeconomists, within reach. Thus, neuroeconomics will permit the co...

Melancholy and society

WOLF LEPENIES, Melancholy and society, transl. Jeremy Gaines and Doris Jones, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. xviii, 253, £31.95 (0-674-56468-5). Melancholy has always been a catchall phrase as universal as the human condition: widespread, if disparate, in every epoch; an affliction of the young and old that has been virtually incapable of adequate definition; ...

The anatomy of melancholy

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