Pessimism : philosophy, ethic, spirit / Joshua Foa Dienstag
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- 3770405
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- Dienstag, Joshua Foa, 1965-
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006
- xix, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
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- 9780691125527
- 069112552X
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. The anatomy of pessimism
- Ch. 2. "A philosophy that is grievous but true" : cultural pessimism in Rousseau and Leopardi
- Ch. 3. "The evils of the world honestly admitted" : metaphysical pessimism in Schopenhauer and Freud
- Ch. 4. "Consciousness in a disease" : existential pessimism in Camus, Unamuno, and Cioran
- Ch. 5. Nietzsche's Dionysian pessimism
- Ch. 6. Cervantes as educator : Don Quixote and the practice of pessimism
- Ch. 7. Aphorisms and pessimisms
- Ch. 8. Pessimism and freedom (the pessimist speaks)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.
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