Princeton University Press, Date: 2006-07-17. Hardcover. Used: Good. 2006. Princeton University Press ISBN 069112552X 9780691125527 [US]

New York Princeton University Press 2006 1 Hardcover Hardcover 1st edition / 1st impression in Good+ condition without a dust jacket. 293 + xix pp. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold lettering along the spine. Light wear to the bottom edge of the front cover and rubbed corners; otherwise, the covers are in great shape. The binding is square and tight. Faint tan color staining to the front edge of the text block Abrasion to the flyleaves. There are several lines of page numbers noted at the top of the front pastedown. The interior pages contain very few markings (mostly check marks in the margins). The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation or despair. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. Bad for the individual, worse for the species--who would actually counsel pessimism? Joshua Foa Dienstag does. In Pessimism, he challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, arguing that there is an unrecognized yet coherent and vibrant pessimistic philosophical tradition. More than that, he ...

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