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Cosmic Pessimism
Author | : Eugene Thacker |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781937561871 |
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“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
Author | : Eugene Thacker |
Publsiher | : Univocal Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Creative writing |
ISBN | : 193756147X |
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"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?"
Infinite Resignation
Author | : Eugene Thacker |
Publsiher | : Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781912248209 |
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A collection of aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism. Composed of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Eugene Thacker’s Infinite Resignation traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. By turns melancholic, misanthropic, and tinged with gallows humor, Thacker’s writing tenuously hovers over that point at which the thought of futility becomes the futility of thought.
Evolution
Author | : Peter J. Bowler |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2003-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520236936 |
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The comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact on one of the most controversial of scientific theories.
Cosmic Pessimism Nihilism Zen
Author | : Anonymous |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2019-08-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0359875831 |
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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!
Weltschmerz
Author | : Frederick C. Beiser |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198768715 |
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Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is not worth living. He explores its major defenders and chief critics, and examines how the theory redirected German philosophy away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life.
Spectres of Pessimism
Author | : Mark Schmitt |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2023-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783031253515 |
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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
Author | : Nicholas Rennie |
Publsiher | : Wallstein Verlag |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Chance in literature |
ISBN | : 3892449686 |
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