History of crying

In addition to preferring to practice criticism rather than theorize about it, Tom Lutz seems not to incline towards philosophical reflection, which he describes as idleness, and he says that it is "lazy," considering it part of Fedor Dostoevsky's "fantasy" that Plato failed to succeed in, whom he sees responsible from the beginning for deepening the false contradictory "mind/body," which in turn has dragged a history of sequential interaction in culture to this day. He even considers philosophical history in general a kind of succession of "meaninglessness," and a series of funny metaphors that we can use literarily without risking giving them an actual space scientifically and practically. But on the other hand, he rejoices in a kind of applied philosophy that interacts with sciences, drawing some of its conclusions, as a prelude to what he wants to reach with "precision" far from reflection and imagination. The book "The History of Crying" is a model of interdisciplinary studies in terms of combining various possible sources that studied or referred to tears, or used its subject in some way. Here, philosophy (a little, of course), literature, criticism, historical writing, sociology, anthropology, psychology, physiology, neurophysiology, biochemistry, etc., come together without exhausting the reader with references to terms and tracking them in their sources more than the author does, who often cares about following the historical and social origins of the scientific term and its evolving usage. Number of pages: 375 pages Author: Tom Lutz