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Provocations, Possibilities, Politics

Provocations, Possibilities, Politics

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THOMSON AND THE MATTER OF HIS BACKGROUND -- II. THOMSON AND RELIGIOUS PESSIMISM -- III. THOMSON AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF PESSIMISM -- ...

Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France

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....

Winton Higgins and Geoff Dow have each taught political science and political economy courses for many years - Higgins at Macquarie University (but now a visiting fellow at UTS); and Dow at The Uni...

This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide.  Focusing on four major authors of Western philosophy - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, a...

This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide.  Focusing on four major authors of Western philosophy - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, a...

A Liberal Political Economist and Conservative Social Philosopher

Critical Terms in Futures Studies

Critical Terms in Futures Studies

From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers

This book explores how Jacques Lacan has influenced Black Studies from the 1950s to the present day, and in turn how a Black Studies framework challenges the topographies of Lacanianism in its unde...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Einleitung -- I. METAPHYSIK UND GESCHICHTSPHILOSOPHIE -- Kosmologie -- Theodizee -- Geschichtsphilosophie -- II. PESSIMISMUS IM 1 9 . JAHRHUNDERT -- Pessimistische Tendenze...