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Author | : Mark Schmitt |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
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ISBN | : 9783031253522 |
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This book argues that philosophical pessimism can offer vital impulses for contemporary cultural studies. Pessimist thought offers ways to interrogate notions of temporality, progress and futurity. When the horizon of future expectation is increasingly shaped by the prospect of apocalypse and extinction, an exploration of pessimist thought can help to make sense of an increasingly complex and uncertain world by affirming rather than suppressing the worst. This book argues that a cultural logic of the worst is at work in a substantial section of contemporary philosophical thought and cultural representations. Spectres of pessimism can be found in contemporary ecocritical thought, antinatalist philosophies, political thought, and cultural theory, as well as in literature, film, and popular music. In its unsettling of temporality, this new pessimism shares sensibilities with the field of hauntology. Both deconstruct linear narratives of time that adhere to a stable sequence of past, present and future. Mark Schmitt therefore couples pessimism and hauntology to explore the spectres of pessimism in a range of theories and narratives-from ecocriticism, antinatalism and queer theory to utopianism, from afropessimism to the fiction of Hari Kunzru and Thomas Ligotti to the films of Camille Griffin, Gaspar Noé, Denis Villeneuve and Lars von Trier.
Author | : Mark Schmitt |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2023-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3031253515 |
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This book argues that philosophical pessimism can offer vital impulses for contemporary cultural studies. Pessimist thought offers ways to interrogate notions of temporality, progress and futurity. When the horizon of future expectation is increasingly shaped by the prospect of apocalypse and extinction, an exploration of pessimist thought can help to make sense of an increasingly complex and uncertain world by affirming rather than suppressing the worst. This book argues that a cultural logic of the worst is at work in a substantial section of contemporary philosophical thought and cultural representations. Spectres of pessimism can be found in contemporary ecocritical thought, antinatalist philosophies, political thought, and cultural theory, as well as in literature, film, and popular music. In its unsettling of temporality, this new pessimism shares sensibilities with the field of hauntology. Both deconstruct linear narratives of time that adhere to a stable sequence of past, present and future. Mark Schmitt therefore couples pessimism and hauntology to explore the spectres of pessimism in a range of theories and narratives—from ecocriticism, antinatalism and queer theory to utopianism, from afropessimism to the fiction of Hari Kunzru and Thomas Ligotti to the films of Camille Griffin, Gaspar Noé, Denis Villeneuve and Lars von Trier.
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 390 |
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ISBN | : 1300855665 |
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Author | : Victor S. Yarros |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Anarchism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Shane McCorristine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2010-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521767989 |
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Examines the culture of ghost-seeing, arguing that the ghost represents a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
Author | : James Sully |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Pessimism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Mark Wenley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Pessimism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : G. W. Sherman |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838615829 |
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Explains the social reasons for Thomas Hardy's consistent pessimism expressed in all his major works. The author contends that this came from the failure of bourgeois society to correct the anachronisms in the social machinery of the day.
Author | : James Sully |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Pessimism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Mark Wenley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781021677662 |
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