书目名称 | Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France |
编辑 | Joseph Acquisto |
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概述 | Examines the rise of modern pessimism and debates surrounding it in nineteenth-century France.Argues that pessimism provides an understanding of the modern world and an approach to it that can help us |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
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描述 | .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.. |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | Pessimism; Nineteenth-Century France; Modern French Literature; Philosophy and Literature; Schopenhauer |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61014-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-61016-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-61014-2Series ISSN 2634-6494 Series E-ISSN 2634-6508 |
issn_series | 2634-6494 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |