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Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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.
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