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Spectres of Pessimism

Author : Mark Schmitt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031253515
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Spectres of Pessimism written by Mark Schmitt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 143 pages. 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.

Spectres of Confusion

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300855665
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Spectres of Confusion written by Anonymous and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spectres of the Self

Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521767989
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Spectres of the Self written by Shane McCorristine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the culture of ghost-seeing, arguing that the ghost represents a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.

The Pessimism of Thomas Hardy

Author : G. W. Sherman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838615829
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The Pessimism of Thomas Hardy written by G. W. Sherman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the social reasons for Thomas Hardy's consistent pessimism expressed in all his major works. The author contends that this came from the failure of bourgeois society to correct the anachronisms in the social machinery of the day.

The Pessimism of Leconte de Lisle

Author : Irving Putter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Pessimism of Leconte de Lisle written by Irving Putter and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tourism and the Spectre of Unlimited Change

Author : Hazel Tucker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003848966
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Tourism and the Spectre of Unlimited Change written by Hazel Tucker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volume forms a sequel to Living with Tourism: Negotiating Identities in a Turkish Village, tracking the tourism development and associated social change in the small town of Göreme, in Turkey’s Cappadocia region, within the last two decades. Carefully crafted chapters explore the significant changes in the tourism forms, place identity, and social relations in the town. On one level, tourism business and Göreme’s ‘living with tourism’ has matured and thrived: the place has, due largely to its booming hot-air ballooning sector, become an ‘Instagram sensation’; some Göreme families have become very wealthy; and tourism has enabled many local women, as well as men, to ‘craft new selves’. On another level, new inequalities and tensions constantly emerge: some families remain poor; gentrification and hotel developments in the older ‘cave-house’ neighbourhoods have led to the disintegration of community; and many people, including those who are now wealthy, talk often with a sense of nostalgia and regret about what Göreme has become. This book is a groundbreaking longitudinal account, recounting the story of the place and people of Göreme ‘still living with tourism’ after 40 years, showing how broader contemporary tourism trends, such as changes in tourism markets and use of digital technology, and increased security fears, manifest at the local level in tourism destinations. This book provides new insights for scholars of tourism, anthropology, geography, and social studies, who wish to gain a deeper understanding of this global phenomenon in the contemporary world.

Ghostly Demarcations

Author : Michael Sprinker
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789603617
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Ghostly Demarcations written by Michael Sprinker and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. In a timely intervention in one of today's most vital theoretical debates, the contributors to Ghostly Demarcations respond to the distinctive program projected by Specters of Marx. The volume features sympathetic meditations on the relationship between Marxism and deconstruction by Fredric Jameson, Werner Hamacher, Antonio Negri, Warren Montag, and Rastko Mcnik, brief polemical reviews by Terry Eagleton and Pierre Macherey, and sustained political critiques by Tom Lewis and Aijaz Ahmad. The volume concludes with Derrida's reply to his critics in which he sharpens his views about the vexed relationship between Marxism and deconstruction.

The Left Hemisphere

Author : Razmig Keucheyan
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168488X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Left Hemisphere written by Razmig Keucheyan and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, is that of theory. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and innovative ideas. The endeavour to transform the world without falling into the catastrophic traps of the past has been a common element uniting these new approaches. This book-aimed at both the general reader and the specialist-offers the first global cartography of the expanding intellectual field of critical contemporary thought. More than thirty authors and intellectual currents of every continent are presented in a clear and succinct manner. A history of critical thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is also provided, helping situate current thinkers in a broader historical and sociological perspective.

Critical Theory and Democratic Vision

Author : Arnold L. Farr
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739119310
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Critical Theory and Democratic Vision written by Arnold L. Farr and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: dialogue with what Farr calls recent liberation philosophies such as feminism and African-American philosophy. All of these forms ofphilosophy are driven by a democratic impulse whereby we realize that there are many social groups that have been excluded from the democratic decision-making process." --Book Jacket.

Dark Matters

Author : Mara van der Lugt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226148
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Dark Matters written by Mara van der Lugt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope. Bringing to life one of the most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der Lugt discusses legendary figures such as Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer. She also introduces readers to less familiar names, such as Bayle, King, La Mettrie, and Maupertuis. Van der Lugt describes not only how the earliest optimists and pessimists were deeply concerned with finding an answer to the question of the value of existence that does justice to the reality of human suffering, but also how they were fundamentally divided over what such an answer should look like. A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's leading scholars, Dark Matters reveals how the crucial moral aim of pessimism is to find a way of speaking about suffering that offers consolation and does justice to the fragility of life.

A Feeling of Wrongness

Author : Joseph Packer
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271083174
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Feeling of Wrongness written by Joseph Packer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated cartoons to speculative fiction. Packer and Stoneman explore how narratives such as True Detective, Rick and Morty, Final Fantasy VII, Lovecraftian weird fiction, and the pop ideology of transhumanism are better suited to communicate pessimistic affect to their fans than most carefully argued philosophical treatises and polemics. They show how these popular nondiscursive texts successfully circumvent the typical defenses against pessimism identified by Peter Wessel Zapffe as distraction, isolation, anchoring, and sublimation. They twist genres, upend common tropes, and disturb conventional narrative structures in a way that catches their audience off guard, resulting in belief without cognition, a more rhetorically effective form of pessimism than philosophical pessimism. While philosophers and polemicists argue for pessimism in accord with the inherently optimistic structures of expressive thought or rhetoric, Packer and Stoneman show how popular texts are able to communicate their pessimism in ways that are paradoxically freed from the restrictive tools of optimism. A Feeling of Wrongness thus presents uncharted rhetorical possibilities for narrative, making visible the rhetorical efficacy of alternate ways and means of persuasion.

Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition

Author : Kristopher Karl Woofter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178672541X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition written by Kristopher Karl Woofter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett's collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the '70s and '80s “slasher” craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on “cosmic dread” and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon's genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond.

The Expositor

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Western Miner

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Miner written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Investor

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book United States Investor written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Miner. Western Miner and Oil Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miner. Western Miner and Oil Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Florida State Horticultural Society

Author : Florida State Horticultural Society. Annual Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Florida State Horticultural Society written by Florida State Horticultural Society. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: