| 书目名称 | Spectres of Pessimism | | 副标题 | A Cultural Logic of | | 编辑 | Mark Schmitt | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Offers original readings of pessimist philosophies.Provides an introduction to afropessimism, queer and reproductive pessimism, and ecological pessimism.Written for scholars interested in philosophy, | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 ut | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | Philosophical pessimism; hauntology; future studies; apocalyptic fiction; cultural theory; Antinatalism | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25351-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-25351-5 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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