In Praise of Melancholy - ChronicleReview.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Mar 08
  

  creativity culture depression happiness import literature melancholy psychology toread

• 12 Feb 08
  

  Ron Hale-Evans

  psychology happiness depression madness creativity

• 11 Feb 08
  

  Lysa Fish

  psychology happiness culture depression creativity inspiration essays life thought

• 02 Feb 08
  

  Chris Weige

  commentary poetry psychology science

• 01 Feb 08
  

  Abi Abinandanan

  Happiness depression Chronicle HigherEd melancholy sadness pleasure contrarian philosophy Psychology January 2008 delicious

• 25 Jan 08
  

  Melissa Graeber

  literature melancholy

• 21 Jan 08
  

  Great piece reminding us that the goal shouldn't be to always be happy. [via Kottke or Kottke-in-Chief]

  mentalhealth depression essay

• 19 Jan 08
  

  Bill H

  A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center shows that almost 85 percent of Americans believe that they are very happy or at least pretty happy.

  post

• 

  drjpkp

  TO READ

• 

  John Short

  Books Book Reviews etc. Literature Literary Criticism Culture

• 18 Jan 08
  

  clarify

  melancholy emotion happiness psychology toread forseminar life culture claritymechanism

• 

  multivers3

  articles culture happiness melancholy creativity

• 

  Gordon Herd

  From Kottke.org

  forblog psychology depression culture creativity literature

• 

  Yogi Marr

  happiness

• 

  Pieter Ruiter

  culture melancholy America delicious

• 

  nom leets

  psychology happiness melancholy toread

• 17 Jan 08
  

  billyb

  vital polarity between agony and ec

  happiness fup

• 

  Adit Kumar

  American culture's overemphasis on happiness misses an essential part of a full life
  advertisement - By ERIC G. WILSON

  psychology happiness melancholy chronicleofhighereducation toread culture

• 

  Jon Aston

  psychology culture happiness melancholy literature creativity depression

• 

  Kathleen Barrett

  arts culture happiness psychology

• 

  barrysaunders

  toread

• 16 Jan 08
  

  Karla Starr

  psychology melancholy happiness pinboard

• 

  treyf 22

  This essay relates in some interesting ways to our class discussion on the difference between entertainment and art, and uses the poetry of John Keats to illustrate his thesis.

  Romanticism

  • Why are most Americans so utterly willing to have an essential part of their hearts sliced away and discarded like so much waste? What are we to make of this American obsession with happiness, an obsession that could well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse, that could result in an extermination as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environmental crisis and nuclear proliferation? What drives this rage for complacency, this desperate contentment?
• 

  marqpdx

  reality

• 

  hjbacchus

  PCPrint

• 

  Amy

  melancholy depression culture

• 

  Minerva Shelved

  American culture's overemphasis on happiness misses an essential part of a full life.

  writing culture literature history

Would you like to comment?

Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.