Living Well With Pessimism In Nineteenth Century France

Author : Joseph Acquisto
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2021
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ISBN : 3030610152

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Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France by Joseph Acquisto Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph Acquisto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030610142

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Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France by Joseph Acquisto Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph Acquisto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765111499

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Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset by Joseph Acquisto Pdf

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social world. Joseph Acquisto analyzes the writings of three thinkers during and shortly after the Second World War who address the question of what it means to think, and what it means to constitute oneself as a thinking subject – at a time that seems to come "after everything"; with the ruins of attacked cities echoing the remains of a philosophical tradition that was confident in its establishment of human beings as rational, of reason leading to progress, and of both the self and the world as knowable. What Georges Bataille calls "inner experience" and Emil Cioran labels "thinking against oneself" is something akin to a drama; not a mere representation of the self in relation to the world, but a process of remapping the relation of subject to object of thought dialectically. Acquisto argues that both writers adopt an anti-systematic approach to thinking that implicates fragmentary writing as a way of turning answers about subject-object relations into questions. Acquisto contends that this stands in contrast to the approach of Clément Rosset, whose affirmation of the inaccessibility of the real leads to an anti-intellectual, grace-filled affirmation of life as it is given, under the guise of what he calls the "tragic." Bringing together thinkers that have seldom been discussed in a comparative light, Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset examines the affective dimensions of thought as experience and considers the political stakes of postwar thought as "out of order" with the world from which it springs.

Author : Yves Hervouet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521384643

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The French Face of Joseph Conrad by Yves Hervouet Pdf

A large-scale account of Conrad's extensive involvement with the French literary tradition, Yves Hervouet's book is a milestone in our understanding of his work. It will have a major impact on Conrad scholarship and as a study of cross-cultural influence, it will be of interest to all students of comparative literature in the period.

Author : Koenraad W. Swart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401196734

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The Sense of Decadence in Nineteenth-Century France by Koenraad W. Swart Pdf

"It was the best oftimes. It was the worst oftimes. " The famous open ing sentence ofCharles Dickens' Tale oJ Two Cities can serve as a motto to characterize the mixture of optimism and pessimism with which a large number of nineteenth-century intellectuals viewed the con dition of their age. It is nowadays hardly necessary to accentuate the optimistic elements in the nineteenth-century view of history; many recent historians have sharply contrasted the complacency and the great expectations of the past century with the fears and anxieties rampant in our own age. It is often too readily assumed that a hundred years ago all leading thinkers as weil as the educated public were addicted to the cult of progress and ignored or minimized those trends of their times that paved the way for the catastrophes of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century the intoxicating triumphs of modern science undeniably induced the general public to believe that pro gress was not an accident but a necessity and that evil and immo rality would gradually disappear. Yet fears, misgivings, and anxieties were not as exceptional in the nineteenth century as is often imagined. Such feelings were not restricted to a few dissenting philosophers and poets like Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, 'Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.

Author : Georges Pellissier
Publisher : New York G.P. Putnam's sons 1897.
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : French literature
ISBN : UOM:39015019127649

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The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century by Georges Pellissier Pdf

Author : Fernand Vial
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042029217

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The Unconscious in Philosophy, and French and European Literature by Fernand Vial Pdf

This book traces the idea of the unconscious as it emerges in French and European literature. It discusses the functioning of the normal unconscious mind and provides examples of the abnormal unconscious in poems and literature. Psychiatric cases as they are understood today are illustrated as mirrored in literature describing the functioning of the disturbed mind.

Author : Suzanne Nash
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438414164

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Home and its Dislocations in Nineteenth-Century France by Suzanne Nash Pdf

The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented social restructuring that disrupted traditional notions of people and place, country and city, private and public spheres. The break with the old order and the entry into the industrial age was most dramatically played out in France, with the growth of a new urban middle class under the July monarchy and the rebuilding of Paris by Haussmann under the Second Empire. The personal, immediate, and radical effects of these changes produced an altered conception of the meaning of home and a homeland. Focusing primarily on mid-nineteenth-century France, these essays, by noted literary critics, offer fascinating new accounts of the relationship between the social history of home and homelessness and the imaginative expressions of the age. This probing interdisciplinary approach, combining theoretical sophistication with historical detail, addresses the fundamental importance of class and gender to the modern history of homelessness. Its provocative readings of well-known texts provide a model of cultural studies at its best and most serious.

Author : AndrewJ. Counter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351562812

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Inheritance in Nineteenth-century French Culture by AndrewJ. Counter Pdf

The transmission of wealth between generations was not only a narrative commonplace in nineteenth-century France, but also a topic of considerable cultural anxiety and intense political debate. In this study, Andrew J. Counter draws on a wealth of previously unexplored material to show how the theme of inheritance in literature and beyond acquired ethical, historical and ideological connotations, and was vital to nineteenth-century French conceptions of the family and of the legacy of the Revolution. Weaving together fiction, drama, legal texts, historiographical thought and political writing, Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century French Culture teases out a complex leitmotiv that gives us a new understanding of nineteenth- century Frances sense of its own place in history. It also proposes innovative readings of writers as familiar as Honore de Balzac, George Sand, Guy de Maupassant and Emile Zola, while drawing attention to a range of neglected authors and works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : UCBK:B000573846

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The Nineteenth Century and After by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020227043

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Nineteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : UOM:39015030720844

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Nineteenth Century and After by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph J. Spengler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136236419

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French Predecessors of Malthus by Joseph J. Spengler Pdf

First Published in 1966. This volume is study of the population and wage theories prevalent in the eighteenth century France. Designed to fill a gap in previous volumes in the history of economic doctrine; and to better accomplish this purpose, population and wage theory has been given a broader denotation and connotation than is customary today.

Author : Craig Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 000686225X

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There to Here by Craig Thomas Pdf

Author : Robert Benjamin Bailey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401508599

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Sociology Faces Pessimism by Robert Benjamin Bailey Pdf

My initial interest in sociology stemmed from the desire to see specific social change in certain areas of my native United States of America. My rather naive assumption at that time was that if the truth is known about social phenomena and presented to rational and educated persons, public opinion will bring about the desirable social change. That is, I assumed some automatic linkage between truth, rationality and social progress. Certainly some of the so-called "pioneers" of sociology also assumed this automatic linkage. Thus, the opportunity to study in Europe, on the soil of some of these "pioneers" heightened my interest and desire to learn more about the relationship between sociology and social progress. After living and studying several years in various parts of Western Europe - England, Germany, France, Holland - one finds that European sociology has remained very closely associ ated with social philosophy and history, has often been resisted by the universities, and is not as empirical as American sociology. The European sociologist, still quite conscious of the mistakes of the early fathers - Comte, Spencer, Marx, among others - is extremely cautious concerning problems of social progress and social action. He is aware that his science is still young and sus pect. He is also less sure than his predecessors about the exact role of sociology.