TY - BOOK AU - Dienstag,Joshua Foa TI - Pessimism: philosophy, ethic, spirit SN - 069112552X (cloth : alk. paper) AV - B829 .D54 2006 U1 - 149/.6 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press KW - Pessimism KW - Political aspects N1 - 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) UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2005056513-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2005056513-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2005056513-b.html ER -