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  • Varieties of Melancholy

  • A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods
  • By: The School of Life
  • Narrated by: Rachel Lanning
  • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Varieties of Melancholy

By: The School of Life
Narrated by: Rachel Lanning
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Summary

An insightful and consoling guide to the melancholic state of mind.

This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn’t depression, rage, or bitterness. It’s a serene, wise, and kindly response to the difficulties of being alive. It helps us navigate a wise and rational middle ground between extreme despair and naïve optimism.

But melancholy is a well-kept secret. It isn't celebrated or recommended. It remains relatively unexplored in a hyper-competitive, noisy, frantic age.

This book carefully collects and interprets a wide range of universally recognizable forms of melancholy, rendering us less confused by our precious yet elusive feelings. We discover everything from the melancholy of a Sunday evening and the melancholy of adolescence to the melancholy of parties and the infatuated melancholy of having a crush.

Offering a rich and varied portrait of melancholy and its range of emotions, this book leads the listener toward deeper insight, more authentic acceptance, and more honest self-compassion.

AN IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF A COMPLEX EMOTION through the lens of art, architecture, literature, and philosophy.

HOW TO INTERPRET AND ACCEPT our melancholy moods.

INCREASE SELF AWARENESS through meditating on melancholy.

EXAMINES 35 VARIETIES OF MELANCHOLY including: Dating and Melancholy, Loneliness and Melancholy, Adolescence and Melancholy, and Politics and Melancholy.

©2021 The School of Life (P)2023 The School of Life
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