Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France by Joseph AcquistoEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2021 | 309 Pages | ISBN : 3030610136 | 2.5 MB
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.