Mark Schmitt: Spectres of Pessimism | Buch

Cover: 9783031253508 | Spectres of Pessimism | A Cultural Logic of the Worst | Mark Schmitt

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Mark Schmitt is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

Offers original readings of pessimist philosophies

Provides an introduction to afropessimism, queer and reproductive pessimism, and ecological pessimism

Written for scholars interested in philosophy, cultural theory, and literary/film studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: "Being for Being Against": Pessimism and the Cultural Moment.- Chapter 2: Pessimism of Theory, Optimism of Practice: Critical Theory vs. Cultural Studies.- Chapter 3: Utopia Banished? Apocalyptic Pessimism and Utopian Optimism.- Chapter 4: The Kids Will Not Be Alright: Futurity, Pessimist Temporality and Procreation.- Chapter 5: Embracing Extinction: Cosmic Pessimism, Crumbling Modernity and Ahuman Futures.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Virtues of Pessimism.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	ix 138 S.
ISBN-13:	9783031253508
ISBN-10:	3031253507
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Schmitt, Mark
Auflage:	1st edition 2023
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Schmitt
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.03.2023
Gewicht:	0,313 kg

Artikel-ID: 126186034