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Auteur(s) : Schmitt, Mark (1985-....)
Titre(s) : Spectres of pessimism [Texte imprimé] : a cultural logic of the worst / Mark Schmitt
Publication : Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-138 p.) ; 22 cm
Collection : Palgrave pivot
Lien à la collection : Palgrave pivot
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 127-133. Index
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 narrativesfrom 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 No, Denis Villeneuve and Lars von Trier
Sujet(s) : Pessimisme -- Société
Négativité (philosophie)
Vie intellectuelle -- Société
Indice(s) Dewey :
149.6 (23e éd.) = Pessimisme
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-3-031-25350-8 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47305691z
Notice n° :
FRBNF47305691
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Table des matières : 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.
