Aspects of Pessimism
Author | : Robert Mark Wenley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Pessimism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Mark Wenley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Pessimism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Mark Wenley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781021677662 |
Author | : Eugene Thacker |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1937561879 |
“We’re doomed.” So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given its proper place. Though pessimism may be, as Eugene Thacker says, the lowest form of philosophy, it may also contain an enigma central to understanding the horizon of the human. Written in a series of fragments, aphorisms, and prose poems, Thacker’s Cosmic Pessimism explores the varieties of pessimism and its often-conflicted relation to philosophy. “Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”
Author | : R. M. WENLEY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033134245 |
Author | : Mara van der Lugt |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691226148 |
An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope. Bringing to life one of the most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der Lugt discusses legendary figures such as Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer. She also introduces readers to less familiar names, such as Bayle, King, La Mettrie, and Maupertuis. Van der Lugt describes not only how the earliest optimists and pessimists were deeply concerned with finding an answer to the question of the value of existence that does justice to the reality of human suffering, but also how they were fundamentally divided over what such an answer should look like. A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's leading scholars, Dark Matters reveals how the crucial moral aim of pessimism is to find a way of speaking about suffering that offers consolation and does justice to the fragility of life.
Author | : Frederick C. Beiser |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198768710 |
Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is not worth living. He explores its major defenders and chief critics, and examines how the theory redirected German philosophy away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life.
Author | : Dennis Vanden Auweele |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351721607 |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on References -- Introduction -- 1 Schopenhauer's Philosophical Pedigree -- 2 Schopenhauer on Knowledge -- 3 Schopenhauer's Metaphysics -- 4 Schopenhauer on Ethics and Action -- 5 Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion -- 6 Schopenhauer's Aesthetics -- 7 Schopenhauer's Ascetics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Author | : R M 1861-1929 Wenley |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2016-05-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781356480036 |
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Author | : Frank B. Wilderson III |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1631496158 |
“Wilderson’s thinking teaches us to believe in the miraculous even as we decry the brutalities out of which miracles emerge”—Fred Moten Praised as “a trenchant, funny, and unsparing work of memoir and philosophy” (Aaron Robertson,?Literary Hub), Frank B. Wilderson’s Afropessimism arrived at a moment when protests against police brutality once again swept the nation. Presenting an argument we can no longer ignore, Wilderson insists that we must view Blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Radical in conception, remarkably poignant, and with soaring flights of memoir, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.“Wilderson’s ambitious book offers its readers two great gifts. First, it strives mightily to make its pessimistic vision plausible. . . . Second, the book depicts a remarkable life, lived with daring and sincerity.”—Paul C. Taylor, Washington Post
Author | : James Sully |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Pessimism |
ISBN | : |