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Release : 1980
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Author : David McLellan
Release : 1989-12-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Simone Weil: Utopian Pessimist by : David McLellan
Download or read book Simone Weil: Utopian Pessimist written by David McLellan. This book was released on 1989-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone Weil's short life was as extraordinary as her writings. Born in 1909, she was a brilliant philosophy student in the Paris of the 1920s and colleague of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. She fought on the anarchist side in the Spanish Civil War and died, at the age of only thirty-four, while serving with de Gaulle and the Free French in London. This life of intense activity was united with a profoundly religious outlook on life. Many consider her the best spiritual writer of our century and a true saint for modern times. Simone Weil published almost nothing during her lifetime. The publication of her complete works is only now beginning in France. They reveal a mind of amazing lucidity and depth. This biography draws on hitherto unpublished material to explain her thought in the context of her life. Its comprehensive coverage at last makes available to the public the most intriguing personality of our age.
Author : Theo Crosby
Release : 1976
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis The Pessimist Utopia by : Theo Crosby
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Author : Mark Schmitt
Release : 2023-03-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Spectres of Pessimism by : Mark Schmitt
Download or read book Spectres of Pessimism written by Mark Schmitt. This book was released on 2023-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David McLellan
Release : 1990
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Utopian Pessimist by : David McLellan
Download or read book Utopian Pessimist written by David McLellan. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and thought of the spiritual writer who fought in the Spanish Civil War, journeyed to Germany during the ascent of the Nazis, and worked to establish an immediate link between Christian and Greek thought.
