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Pessimism : philosophy, ethic, spirit
- Title
- Pessimism : philosophy, ethic, spirit / Joshua Foa Dienstag.
- Author
- Dienstag, Joshua Foa, 1965-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- xix, 293 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.
- Contents
- 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).
- Call Number
- JFE 06-13880
- ISBN
- 069112552X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780691125527 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005056513
- 9780691125527
- OCLC
- 62878408
- Author
- Dienstag, Joshua Foa, 1965-
- Title
- Pessimism : philosophy, ethic, spirit / Joshua Foa Dienstag.
- Imprint
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780691125527
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-13880