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Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

Af: Joseph Acquisto Engelsk Paperback

Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

Af: Joseph Acquisto Engelsk Paperback
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This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications. It explores how, since pessimism as a worldview is not empirically verifiable, writers on pessimism shift the discussion to verisimilitude, opening up rich territory for cross-fertilization between philosophy and literature. The book traces debates on pessimism in the nineteenth century among French nonfiction writers who either lauded its promotion of compassion or condemned it for being a sick and unliveable attempt at renunciation. It then examines the way novelists and poets take up and transform these questions by portraying characters in lived situations that serve as testing grounds for the merits or limitations of pessimism. The debate on pessimism that emerged in the nineteenth century is still very much with us, and this book offers an interhistorical argument for embracing pessimism as a way of living well in the world, aesthetically, ethically, and politically.

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This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications. It explores how, since pessimism as a worldview is not empirically verifiable, writers on pessimism shift the discussion to verisimilitude, opening up rich territory for cross-fertilization between philosophy and literature. The book traces debates on pessimism in the nineteenth century among French nonfiction writers who either lauded its promotion of compassion or condemned it for being a sick and unliveable attempt at renunciation. It then examines the way novelists and poets take up and transform these questions by portraying characters in lived situations that serve as testing grounds for the merits or limitations of pessimism. The debate on pessimism that emerged in the nineteenth century is still very much with us, and this book offers an interhistorical argument for embracing pessimism as a way of living well in the world, aesthetically, ethically, and politically.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9783030610166
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 3030610160
Udg. Dato: 5 feb 2022
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 148mm
Højde: 210mm
Forlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato: 5 feb 2022
Forfatter(e): Joseph Acquisto
Forfatter(e) Joseph Acquisto


Kategori Litteraturstudier: fra 1800 til 1900


ISBN-13 9783030610166


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 304


Udgave


Længde 0mm


Bredde 148mm


Højde 210mm


Udg. Dato 5 feb 2022


Oplagsdato 5 feb 2022


Forlag Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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