Weinen: Die Natur- und Kulturgeschichte der Tränen

Author/Contributor(s):	Lutz, Tom
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	01/01/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this wide-ranging and provocative study, Tom Lutz looks at the ways people have understood weeping from the earliest known representations of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. to the tears found in today's films. Drawing on works of literature, philosophy, art, and science from the writings of Plato and Darwin to the paintings of Picasso to modern medical journals, he unearths the multiple meanings and uses of tears.