Dienstag, Joshua Foa,  1965- <br/><br/>
Pessimism :  philosophy, ethic, spirit / 
Joshua Foa Dienstag. 
 - Princeton, N.J. :  Princeton University Press,  c2006. 
 - xix, 293 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index. 
<br/><br/>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). 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>069112552X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780691125527 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005056513 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA652714  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013485922  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pessimism.<br/>Pessimism--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B829  / .D54 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>149/.6