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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph AcquistoPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.534kg ISBN: 9783030610135ISBN 10: 3030610136 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 05 February 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not available ![]() This product is no longer available from the original publisher or manufacturer. There may be a chance that we can source it as a discontinued product. Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Schopenhauer: Resignation, Compassion, and Narrative3 Debates on Pessimism in Late Nineteenth-Century France4 Pessimism and the Novel: Fiction and the “As-If”5 Pessimism and the Poetic Imagination6 Conclusion: Living Well with Pessimism, Then and NowReviews“This book is an ambitious endeavor, drawing from an extensive range of sources and thinkers. It is well-written and coherent ... . Scholars of literature, philosophy, culture studies, and intellectual history will find this volume inspiring and insightful; moreover, it will appeal to specialists of nineteenth[1]century French literature as well as readers of the history of ideas in general.” (Karen Humphreys, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, ncfs-journal.org, Vol. 52 (3-4), 2024) Author InformationJoseph Acquisto is a Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA. His books include Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance (2020), Proust, Music, and Meaning (2017), The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy (2015), and French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music (2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |