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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400827480
035 _a(DE-B1597)446471
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050 4 _aB829.D54 2009
072 7 _aPHI031000
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082 0 4 _a149.6
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDienstag, Joshua Foa
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPessimism :
_bPhilosophy, Ethic, Spirit /
_cJoshua Foa Dienstag.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2006
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tPart I. --
_tChapter One. The Anatomy Of Pessimism --
_tPart II. --
_tChapter Two. "A Philosophy That Is Grievous But True" Cultural Pessimism In Rousseau And Leopardi --
_tChapter Three. "The Evils Of The World Honestly Admitted" Metaphysical Pessimism In Schopenhauer And Freud --
_tChapter Four. "Consciousness Is A Disease" Existential Pessimism In Camus, Unamuno, And Cioran --
_tPart III. --
_tChapter Five. Nietzsche's Dionysian Pessimism --
_tChapter Six. Cervantes As Educator Don Quixote And The Practice Of Pessimism --
_tChapter Seven. Aphorisms And Pessimisms --
_tChapter Eight. Pessimism And Freedom (The Pessimist Speaks) --
_tAfterword --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
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520 _aPessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation or despair. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. Bad for the individual, worse for the species--who would actually counsel pessimism? Joshua Foa Dienstag does. In Pessimism, he challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, arguing that there is an unrecognized yet coherent and vibrant pessimistic philosophical tradition. More than that, he argues that pessimistic thought may provide a critically needed alternative to the increasingly untenable progressivist ideas that have dominated thinking about politics throughout the modern period. Laying out powerful grounds for pessimism's claim that progress is not an enduring feature of human history, Dienstag argues that political theory must begin from this predicament. He persuasively shows that pessimism has been--and can again be--an energizing and even liberating philosophy, an ethic of radical possibility and not just a criticism of faith. The goal--of both the pessimistic spirit and of this fascinating account of pessimism--is not to depress us, but to edify us about our condition and to fortify us for life in a disordered and disenchanted universe.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Movements / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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