'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianRobert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy,
"What if what we consider to be reason-based, deliberative judgment is really the product of involuntary mental sensations? In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, Dr. Robert Burton takes a close look at th
What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control?Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world’s greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience,
One of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language, The Anatomy of Melancholy is an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states — their causes
This is the third and final text volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. It contains "The Third Partition," "The Table," edited from 1624-1651 editions, textual a
