ABSTRACT

The connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy are explored through a comprehensive re-examination of Soren Kierkegaard's rich and insightful writings.

part |65 pages

The physiognomy of the present age

chapter |26 pages

Melancholy

The depth of modern life

chapter |18 pages

Irony

The romance of distance

chapter |20 pages

Reflection

On the surface of modernity

part |81 pages

Despair

chapter |26 pages

Revolution of the spheres

A topological fantasy

chapter |26 pages

Between existence and non-existence

An anthropological digression

chapter |28 pages

The religion of inwardness

An offensive philosophy

part |44 pages

Reduplication

chapter |20 pages

The upbuilding

Architecture of happiness

chapter |12 pages

Edification

The conquest of melancholy

chapter |11 pages

Inconclusive postscript

Beyond despair