Living well with pessimism in nineteenth-century France / Joseph Acquisto.
2021
PQ283 .A27 2021
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Title
Living well with pessimism in nineteenth-century France / Joseph Acquisto.
ISBN
9783030610142 (electronic bk.)
3030610144 (electronic bk.)
3030610136
9783030610135
3030610144 (electronic bk.)
3030610136
9783030610135
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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©2021
Language
English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-030-61014-2 doi
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PQ283 .A27 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
840.9007
Summary
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.
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Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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Table of Contents
Intro
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Schopenhauer: Resignation, Compassion, and Narrative
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Chapter 3: Debates on Pessimism in Late Nineteenth-Century France
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Chapter 4: Pessimism and the Novel: Fiction and the "As-If"
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Chapter 5: Pessimism and the Poetic Imagination
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Chapter 6: Conclusion: Living Well with Pessimism, Then and Now
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Index
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Schopenhauer: Resignation, Compassion, and Narrative
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Chapter 3: Debates on Pessimism in Late Nineteenth-Century France
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Chapter 4: Pessimism and the Novel: Fiction and the "As-If"
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Chapter 5: Pessimism and the Poetic Imagination
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Chapter 6: Conclusion: Living Well with Pessimism, Then and Now
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Index