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Cosmic Pessimism
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Author : Eugene Thacker
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2016-03-01
Cosmic Pessimism written by Eugene Thacker and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with Philosophy categories.
“We’re doomed.” So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given its proper place. Though pessimism may be, as Eugene Thacker says, the lowest form of philosophy, it may also contain an enigma central to understanding the horizon of the human. Written in a series of fragments, aphorisms, and prose poems, Thacker’s Cosmic Pessimism explores the varieties of pessimism and its often-conflicted relation to philosophy. “Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”
Cosmic Pessimism Nihilism Zen
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-08-31
Cosmic Pessimism Nihilism Zen written by Anonymous and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-31 with Fiction categories.
Before deciding to compile this book, I read the 14 page book by Eugene Thacker entitled: Cosmic Pessimism. If not for that terrible dissappointment of a book by Eugene Thacker, similarly titled, you would not be reading this now, so I guess, you have his brevity (and my reactionary ANGER) to thank for this immaculate and flawless publication here, which I have called, Cosmic Pessimism. Nihilism. Zen. Eugene Thacker's book is tiny. I fault him for that. I don't however, fault him for taking up the aphoristic style, the strategy of hammering the reader with short bursts of aporia, disjunction and bizarre impasse. Jaded little utterances; Questions in response to questions! Inscrutable paradoxes! Brutal condemnations of existence!
My Cosmic Pessimism
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Author : Luis Alberto Santander
language : en
Publisher: Pentland Press (NC)
Release Date : 2000
My Cosmic Pessimism written by Luis Alberto Santander and has been published by Pentland Press (NC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Years of reflection have resulted in this compilation of thoughts on the origin of the universe. Luis A. Santander's book questions the existence of a divine presence in a straight forward manner. A strong internal necessity and a general disagreement with the majority are some of the reasons that motivate me to write. I propose to show my point of view about the possibility of the existence of a God and analyze why the universe exists. I am conscious that the majority surely will differ with me, because my ideas arise from the disagreement that a perfect and kind God exists.
Infinite Resignation
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Author : Eugene Thacker
language : en
Publisher: Repeater
Release Date : 2018-07-19
Infinite Resignation written by Eugene Thacker and has been published by Repeater this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-19 with Philosophy categories.
The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, ThackerÍs new book traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it often is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. Reflecting on the universeÍs ñlooming abyss of indifference,î Thacker explores the pessimism of a range of philosophers, from the well-known (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Camus), to the lesser-known (E.M. Cioran, Lev Shestov, Miguel de Unamuno). Readers will find food for thought in ThackerÍs handling of a range of themes in Christianity and Buddhism, as well as his engagement with literary figures (from Dostoevsky to Thomas Bernhard, Osamu Dazai, and Fernando Pessoa), whose pessimism about the world both inspires and depresses Thacker. By turns melancholic, misanthropic, and darkly funny, (ñBirth is a metaphysical injury healing takes time the span of one's lifeî), many will find Infinite Resignation a welcome antidote to the exuberant imbecility of our times.
Evolution
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Author : Peter J. Bowler
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-07
Evolution written by Peter J. Bowler and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with Science categories.
The comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact on one of the most controversial of scientific theories.
Spectres Of Pessimism
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Author : Mark Schmitt
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-15
Spectres Of Pessimism written by Mark Schmitt and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-15 with Philosophy categories.
This book argues that philosophical pessimism can offer vital impulses for contemporary cultural studies. Pessimist thought offers ways to interrogate notions of temporality, progress and futurity. When the horizon of future expectation is increasingly shaped by the prospect of apocalypse and extinction, an exploration of pessimist thought can help to make sense of an increasingly complex and uncertain world by affirming rather than suppressing the worst. This book argues that a cultural logic of the worst is at work in a substantial section of contemporary philosophical thought and cultural representations. Spectres of pessimism can be found in contemporary ecocritical thought, antinatalist philosophies, political thought, and cultural theory, as well as in literature, film, and popular music. In its unsettling of temporality, this new pessimism shares sensibilities with the field of hauntology. Both deconstruct linear narratives of time that adhere to a stable sequence of past, present and future. Mark Schmitt therefore couples pessimism and hauntology to explore the spectres of pessimism in a range of theories and narratives—from ecocriticism, antinatalism and queer theory to utopianism, from afropessimism to the fiction of Hari Kunzru and Thomas Ligotti to the films of Camille Griffin, Gaspar Noé, Denis Villeneuve and Lars von Trier.
Speculating On The Moment
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Author : Nicholas Rennie
language : en
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Release Date : 2005
Speculating On The Moment written by Nicholas Rennie and has been published by Wallstein Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
The New Cosmic Story
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Author : John F. Haught
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-24
The New Cosmic Story written by John F. Haught and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with Religion categories.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title. “A compelling argument for a broader understanding of religion in relation to our cosmic story.”—Mary Evelyn Tucker, coauthor of Journey of the Universe Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have written books on life and the universe—including Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins—have overlooked a crucial aspect of cosmic history: the drama of life’s awakening to interiority and religious awareness. Science may illuminate the outside story of the universe, but a full telling of the cosmic story cannot ignore the inside development that interiority represents. Haught addresses two primary questions: what does the arrival of religion tell us about the universe, and what does our understanding of the cosmos as an unfinished drama tell us about religion? The history of religion may be ambiguous and sometimes even barbarous, he asserts, but its role in the story of cosmic emergence and awakening must be taken into account. “A well written book overall, and one that should prompt a more inspiring view of where we are in the Big Picture, The New Cosmic Story is highly recommended.”—Forbes.com “Haught delivers a singular contribution with his fresh, panoptic perspective on our cosmic story.”—Charles G. Conway, Reading Religion “This book, John F. Haught’s summa, will become a permanent contribution to the religion and science literature.”—Holmes Rolston, III, Templeton Prize winner
The Matter Of Evil
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Author : Drew M. Dalton
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-15
The Matter Of Evil written by Drew M. Dalton and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-15 with Philosophy categories.
A provocative and entirely new account of ethical reasoning that reconceives the traditional understanding of ethical action negatively In this radical reconsideration of ethical reasoning in contemporary European philosophy, Drew M. Dalton makes the case for an absolutely grounded account of ethical normativity developed from a scientifically informed and purely materialistic metaphysics. Expanding on speculative realist arguments, Dalton argues that the limits placed on the nature of ethical judgments by Kant’s critique can be overcome through a moral evaluation of the laws of nature—specifically, the entropic principle that undergirds the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology. In order to extract a moral meaning from this simple material fact, Dalton scrutinizes the presumptions of classical accounts and traditional understandings of good and evil within the history of Western philosophy and ultimately asserts that ethical normativity can be reestablished absolutely without reverting to dogmatism. By overturning our assumptions about the nature and value of reality, The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism presents a provocative new model of ethical responsibility that is both logically justifiable and scientifically sound. Dalton argues for “ethical pessimism,” a position previously marginalized in the West, as a means to cultivate an account of ethical responsibility and political activism that takes seriously the unbecoming of being and the moral horror of existence.
Pedagogy At The End Of The World
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Author : jessie l. beier
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-22
Pedagogy At The End Of The World written by jessie l. beier and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-22 with Education categories.
This book interrogates the ways in which “end of the world” thinking has come to define and delimit pedagogical approaches in Anthropocene times. Chapters unfold through a series of speculative studies of educational futurity—sustainable futures, energy futures, working futures—each of which is positioned as an experimental site for probing the limits of pedagogical unthinkability so as to speculate, through concept creation, on unthought educational trajectories. Specifically, the book is oriented towards the creation of pedagogical concepts that work to problematize and resituate questions of educational futurity in relation to the planetary realities raised by today’s pressing extinction events. It is from this experimentation that a weird pedagogy emerges, that is, an experimental pedagogical anti-model, a speculative program for the unprogrammable that seeks to counter-actualize potentials of and for unthinking pedagogy at the (so-called) end of the world.