Studies in Pessimism
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : Digireads.Com |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2008-01-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781420931105 |
"Studies in Pessimism, On Human Nature, and Religion: a Dialogue, etc." is a collection of essays by famed German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. In this work you will find three collections of essays which include the following: On The Sufferings Of The World, On The Vanity Of Existence, On Suicide, Immortality: A Dialogue, Psychological Observations, On Education, Of Women, On Noise, A Few Parables, Human Nature, Government, Free-Will And Fatalism, Character, Moral Instinct, Ethical Reflections, Religion: A Dialogue, A Few Words On Pantheism, On Books And Reading, On Physiognomy, Psychological Observations, and The Christian System.
Author | : Joshua Foa Dienstag |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2009-02-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1400827485 |
Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation or despair. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. Bad for the individual, worse for the species--who would actually counsel pessimism? Joshua Foa Dienstag does. In Pessimism, he challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, arguing that there is an unrecognized yet coherent and vibrant pessimistic philosophical tradition. More than that, he argues that pessimistic thought may provide a critically needed alternative to the increasingly untenable progressivist ideas that have dominated thinking about politics throughout the modern period. Laying out powerful grounds for pessimism's claim that progress is not an enduring feature of human history, Dienstag argues that political theory must begin from this predicament. He persuasively shows that pessimism has been--and can again be--an energizing and even liberating philosophy, an ethic of radical possibility and not just a criticism of faith. The goal--of both the pessimistic spirit and of this fascinating account of pessimism--is not to depress us, but to edify us about our condition and to fortify us for life in a disordered and disenchanted universe.
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1624668496 |
This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne’s definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David Cartwright, a translator’s preface, biographical note, selected bibliography, and an index. For convenient reference to passages in Kant's work discussed by Schopenhauer, Academy edition numbers have been added.
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2018-08-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781725884243 |
On the Vanity of Existence is one of Arthur Schopenhauer's classics.
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1602063494 |
CONTENTSOn the Sufferings of the WorldOn the Vanity of ExistenceOn SuicideImmortality: A DialoguePsychological ObservationsOn EducationOf WomenOn NoiseA Few Parables
Author | : Frank B. Wilderson III |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1631496158 |
“Wilderson’s thinking teaches us to believe in the miraculous even as we decry the brutalities out of which miracles emerge”—Fred Moten Praised as “a trenchant, funny, and unsparing work of memoir and philosophy” (Aaron Robertson,?Literary Hub), Frank B. Wilderson’s Afropessimism arrived at a moment when protests against police brutality once again swept the nation. Presenting an argument we can no longer ignore, Wilderson insists that we must view Blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Radical in conception, remarkably poignant, and with soaring flights of memoir, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.“Wilderson’s ambitious book offers its readers two great gifts. First, it strives mightily to make its pessimistic vision plausible. . . . Second, the book depicts a remarkable life, lived with daring and sincerity.”—Paul C. Taylor, Washington Post
Author | : Eugene Thacker |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1937561879 |
“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?”
Author | : Артур Шопенгауэр |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040886535 |
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : Full Moon Publications |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2019-07-13 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, in which he argues that the phenomenal world is driven by a metaphysical will that perpetually and malignantly seeks satiation. He also wrote influentially on aesthetics, ethics, and religion.Transcendental idealism formed the basis for much of his thought, and his atheistic philosophy has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism. Finding his philosophical conclusions to be compatible with those of much Eastern philosophy, his solutions to the problems of existence and suffering were consequently similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers. Schopenhauer's influence has proven profound across various disciplines; those who have cited his influence include Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Leo Tolstoy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.