Pessimism: philosophy, ethic, spirit

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Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel Philosophical Ethics and Theory Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence

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PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv ABBREVIATIONS xvii PART I CHAPTER ONE: Anatomy of Pessimism 3 PART II CHAPTER TWO: A Philosophy That Is Grievous but True: Cultural Pessimism in Rousseau and Leopardi 49 CHAPTER THREE: The Evils of the World Honestly Admitted: Metaphysical Pessimism in Schopenhauer and Freud 84 CHAPTER FOUR Consciousness Is a Disease: Existential Pessimism in Camus, Unamuno, and Cioran 118 PART III CHAPTER FIVE: Nietzsche's Dionysian Pessimism 161 CHAPTER SIX: Cervantes as Educator: Don Quixote and the Practice of Pessimism 201 CHAPTER SEVEN: Aphorisms and Pessimisms 226 CHAPTER EIGHT: Pessimism and Freedom (The Pessimist Speaks) 244 AFTERWORD 265 BIBLIOGRAPHY 273 INDEX 283

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