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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher:
A provocative and wide-ranging analysis of the cultural mood of anxiety and pessimism in the early 21st century.
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-01 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cultural pessimism arises with the conviction that the culture of a nation, a civilisation or of humanity itself is in a process of irreversible decline. In an
Language: en
Pages: 335
Pages: 335
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Baylor University Press
Escape into the Future analyzes the power of pessimism, showing links between present-day religious pessimism and the nihilism of popular culture. Stroup and Sh
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher:
Escape into the Future analyzes the power of pessimism, showing links between present-day religious pessimism and the nihilism of popular culture. Stroup and Sh
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-17 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an