Spectres Of Pessimism


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Spectres Of Pessimism


Spectres Of Pessimism
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Author : Mark Schmitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023

Spectres Of Pessimism written by Mark Schmitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with 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.



Spectres Of Pessimism


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.



Pessimism


Pessimism
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Author : James Sully
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877

Pessimism written by James Sully and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Pessimism categories.




Pessimism And Optimism


Pessimism And Optimism
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Author : Victor S. Yarros
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

Pessimism And Optimism written by Victor S. Yarros and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Anarchism categories.




Studies In Pessimism


Studies In Pessimism
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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

Studies In Pessimism written by Arthur Schopenhauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Philosophy categories.




Aspects Of Pessimism


Aspects Of Pessimism
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Author : R. M. WENLEY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

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Aspects Of Pessimism


Aspects Of Pessimism
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Author : Robert Mark Wenley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-07-18

Aspects Of Pessimism written by Robert Mark Wenley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with Literary Criticism categories.




Spectres Of Confusion


Spectres Of Confusion
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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A Philosophy Of Pessimism


A Philosophy Of Pessimism
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Author : Stuart Sim
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2015-09-15

A Philosophy Of Pessimism written by Stuart Sim and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Philosophy categories.


There are many reasons to despair over the state of the world today: climate change, war, terrorism, social injustice and an utter failure by our political systems to fix them. Yet there will always be those frustrating optimists who counter such an outlook by citing developments such as modern medicine, democracy and the World Wide Web as signs that things are, and always have been, getting better. Stuart Sim argues in response that there is tremendous value in keeping the dark side of human affairs at the forefront of our consciousness. This book offers the proposition that pessimists simply have a more realistic world view. Tracing how pessimism has developed over time, it shows that many thinkers throughout history - including philosophers, theologians, authors, aritsts and even scientists - have been pessimists at heart, challenging us to face up to the problems that define human existence. Spanning cultures and moving across eras, this grand discourse of pessimism proposes the provocative argument that pessimism should be cultivated and vigorously defended as one of our most useful dispositions. -- from back cover.



Pessimism


Pessimism
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Author : James Sully
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

Pessimism written by James Sully and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Pessimism categories.