Richard ‘Rick’ Boothby is professor emeritus of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. Boothby’s books include Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud (1995), Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan (2001), Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still has to Teach Us About Sex and Gender (2006) and Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (2023). He lives in Baltimore.
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Twenty Shadows
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Twenty Shadows
Oct 2026
Twenty Shadows
Richard Boothby
Written by one of our greatest living philosophers, this exceptional book brings together his most important philosophical work with his intense discussion of his son’s suicide.
Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows,
Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;
For sorrow’s eye, glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects;
Like perspectives which, rightly gazed upon,
Show nothing but confusion
—Shakespeare, Richard II
Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;
For sorrow’s eye, glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects;
Like perspectives which, rightly gazed upon,
Show nothing but confusion
—Shakespeare, Richard II
Twenty Shadows traces a father and philosopher’s spiritual transformation, following the suicide of his son by gunshot after a long addiction. Haunted by this loss and the unknown desire of his only child, Richard Boothby finds a form of expression that was hitherto impossible. He thinks and writes with an openness that verges on the mystic.
- 978-1-0684395-3-7
- 19.8 x 12.8 cm
- 240 pp.
- Paperback
- October 2026
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- 978-1-0684395-7-5
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- 978-1-0684395-6-8
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