Pessimism : philosophy, ethic, spirit /
Dienstag, Joshua Foa, 1965-
Pessimism : philosophy, ethic, spirit / Joshua Foa Dienstag. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. - xix, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.
The anatomy of pessimism -- "A philosophy that is grievous but true": cultural pessimism in Rousseau and Leopardi -- "The evils of the world honestly admitted": metaphysical pessimism in Schopenhauer and Freud -- "Consciousness is a disease": existential pessimism in Camus, Unamuno, and Cioran -- Nietzsche's Dionysian pessimism -- Cervantes as educator: Don Quixote and the practice of pessimism -- Aphorisms and pessimisms -- Pessimism and freedom (the pessimist speaks).
069112552X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780691125527 (cloth : alk. paper)
2005056513
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013485922 Uk
Pessimism.
Pessimism--Political aspects.
B829 / .D54 2006
149/.6
Pessimism : philosophy, ethic, spirit / Joshua Foa Dienstag. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. - xix, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.
The anatomy of pessimism -- "A philosophy that is grievous but true": cultural pessimism in Rousseau and Leopardi -- "The evils of the world honestly admitted": metaphysical pessimism in Schopenhauer and Freud -- "Consciousness is a disease": existential pessimism in Camus, Unamuno, and Cioran -- Nietzsche's Dionysian pessimism -- Cervantes as educator: Don Quixote and the practice of pessimism -- Aphorisms and pessimisms -- Pessimism and freedom (the pessimist speaks).
069112552X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780691125527 (cloth : alk. paper)
2005056513
GBA652714 bnb
013485922 Uk
Pessimism.
Pessimism--Political aspects.
B829 / .D54 2006
149/.6