In this surprising and insightful study, Roger Bartra explores how three lucid European thinkers - Immanuel Kant, Max Weber and Walter Benjamin - addressed melancholy, a condition of imbalance, chaotic and desolate, and a keystone of modern Western thought.

Originally published as El duelo de los ángeles; Valencia, Spain: Pre-Textos, 2004, and in Mexico City, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004.