Pessimism : philosophy, ethic, spirit / Joshua Foa Dienstag.
Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.Description: xix, 293 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 069112552X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780691125527 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 149/.6 22
- B829 .D54 2006
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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).
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