Since the inception of Philosophy, the question of melacholy. is intimately connected with creativity. Thus, Aristocle could say that creative people -Poets and Philosophers - are melancholic people. In contemporary discourses, the question of melancholy has once again acquired its decisive importance. No longer tied to the old conception of the genius, and no longer seen as reducible to a psycho pathological disorder, melacholy is now seen as the fundamental attunement between us and the world To think again of this fascinating question of melacholy in the task that this edited volume undertakes.