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Cosmic Pessimism

2016-03-01 Philosophy
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Release : 2016-03-01
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Book Synopsis Cosmic Pessimism by : Eugene Thacker

Download or read book Cosmic Pessimism written by Eugene Thacker. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

2015 Creative writing
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Release : 2015
Genre : Creative writing
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Book Synopsis Cosmic Pessimism by : Eugene Thacker

Download or read book Cosmic Pessimism written by Eugene Thacker. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

2018-07-17 Philosophy
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Release : 2018-07-17
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 204/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Infinite Resignation by : Eugene Thacker

Download or read book Infinite Resignation written by Eugene Thacker. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Scholarly advice for dark times.” —The New Yorker “Provides a metric ton of misery and a lot of company.” —New York Times “Probably philosophy’s only beach read.” —Vice A ‘nihilist’s devotional,’ this collection aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism offer a raw look at the human condition Dark times lie around us and ahead of us, and what better way to survive the coming Apocolypse than by immersing yourself in some of the greatest thinkers on pessimism, brought together with his own thoughts on the subject by Eugene Thacker, author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Infinite Resignation traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it often is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. Reflecting on the universe’s “looming abyss of indifference,” Thacker explores the pessimism of a range of philosophers, from the well-known (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Camus), to the lesser-known (E.M. Cioran, Lev Shestov, Miguel de Unamuno). Readers will find food for thought in Thacker’s handling of a range of themes in Christianity and Buddhism, as well as his engagement with literary figures (from Dostoevsky to Thomas Bernhard, Osamu Dazai, and Fernando Pessoa), whose pessimism about the world both inspires and depresses Thacker. By turns melancholic, misanthropic, and darkly funny, Infinite Resignation is a welcome antidote to the exuberant imbecility of our times.

Weltschmerz

2016 History
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Release : 2016
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 710/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Weltschmerz by : Frederick C. Beiser

Download or read book Weltschmerz written by Frederick C. Beiser. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Cosmic Pessimism. Nihilism. Zen.

2019-08-31 Fiction
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Release : 2019-08-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Cosmic Pessimism. Nihilism. Zen. by : Anonymous

Download or read book Cosmic Pessimism. Nihilism. Zen. written by Anonymous. This book was released on 2019-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

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