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Misanthropy - The Critique of Humanity (Hardcover)
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Misanthropy - The Critique of Humanity (Hardcover)
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This book is the first major study of the theme of misanthropy, its
history, arguments both for and against it, and its significance
for us today. Misanthropy is not strictly a philosophy. It is an
inconsistent thought, and so has often been mocked. But from Timon
of Athens to Motoerhead it has had a very long life, vast
historical purchase and is seemingly indomitable and unignorable.
Human beings have always nursed a profound distrust of who and what
they are. This book does not seek to rationalize that distrust, but
asks how far misanthropy might have a reason on its side, if a
confused reason. There are obvious arguments against misanthropy.
It is often born of a hatred of physical being. It can be
historically explained. It particularly appears in undemocratic
cultures. But what of the misanthropy of terminally defeated and
disempowered peoples? Or born of progressivisms? Or the misanthropy
that quarrels with specious or easy positivities (from Pelagius to
Leibniz to the corporate cheer of contemporary `total capital`)?
From the Greek Cynics to Roman satire, St Augustine to Jacobean
drama, the misanthropy of the French Ancien Regime to Swift,
Smollett and Johnson, Hobbes, Schopenhauer and Rousseau, from the
Irish and American misanthropic traditions to modern women`s
misanthropy, the book explores such questions. It ends with a
debate about contemporary culture that ranges from the `dark
radicalisms`, queer misanthropy, posthumanism and eco-misanthropy
to Houellebecq, punk rock and gangsta rap.
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