Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-C...

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Joseph Acquisto is a Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA. His books include Poetry's Knowing Ignorance (2020), Proust, Music, and Meaning (2017), The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy (2015),andFrench Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music (2006).

Zusammenfassung

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 live well in it

Explores a wide range of fiction and non-fiction writers whose approach to pessimism deepens the relationship between philosophy and literature

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Schopenhauer: Resignation, Compassion, and Narrative.- 3. Debates on Pessimism in Late Nineteenth-Century France.- 4. Pessimism and the Novel: Fiction and the "As-If".- 5. Pessimism and the Poetic Imagination.- 6. Conclusion: Living Well with Pessimism, Then and Now

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	312
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Inhalt:	vii 304 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030610166
ISBN-10:	3030610160
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Acquisto, Joseph
Auflage:	1st ed. 2021
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Maße:	210 x 148 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Joseph Acquisto
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.02.2022
Gewicht:	0,406 kg

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