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English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0262049309 | 200 pages | PDF | 2.85 Mb
A radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.

Free Download Dennis Vanden Auweele, "The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s Pessimism "
English | ISBN: 0367888793 | 2019 | 242 pages | EPUB | 1364 KB
This book connects Schopenhauer’s philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer’s epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy. The individual chapters in this book discuss how these knowledge types―immediate or mediate, representational or non-representational―relate to Schopenhauer’s metaphysics, ethics and action, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and asceticism. In each of these areas, a specific sense of pessimism serves to disarm a number of paradoxes and inconsistencies typically associated with Schopenhauer’s philosophy. The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s Pessismism shows how Schopenhauer’s claim that he is a true successor to Kant can be justified.

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English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0262049309 | 200 pages | True EPUB | 1.41 MB
A radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.

Free Download Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 By Frederick C. Beiser
2016 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0198768710 | PDF | 3 MB
Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer, whose philosophy became very fashionable in the 1860s. Frederick C. Beiser examines the intense and long controversy that arose from Schopenhauer’s pessimism, which changed the agenda of philosophy in Germany away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life. He examines the major defenders of pessimism (Philipp Mainlander, Eduard von Hartmann and Julius Bahnsen) and its chief critics, especially Eugen Duhring and the neo-Kantians. The pessimism dispute of the second half of the century has been largely ignored in secondary literature and this book is a first attempt since the 1880s to re-examine it and to analyze the important philosophical issues raised by it. The dispute concerned the most fundamental philosophical issue of them all: whether life is worth living.

Free Download Anne Showstack Sassoon, "Gramsci and Contemporary Politics: Beyond Pessimism of the Intellect"
English | 1999 | pages: 177 | ISBN: 0415162149, 0415757126 | PDF | 2,8 mb
Can politics now be both radical and realistic? Gramsci and Contemporary Politics is a collection of Anne Showstack Sassoon’s writing which spans the major transitions from Thatcher and Reagan to Clinton and Blair; the collapse of communism to the regeneration of social democracy. Applying original interpretations of Antonio Gramsci’s ideas on the intellectuals, political language, civil society and political leadership, she argues that drawing from the past, and broadening contemporary sources of political and academic knowledge can contribute to a grounded, radical hegemonic politics which can bring about change.

Free Download Pessimism of the Intellect?: A History of the New Left Review By Duncan Thompson
2007 | 254 Pages | ISBN: 0850365562 | PDF | 53 MB
Duncan Thompson provides a concise summary of the hitherto neglected history of the NEW LEFT REVIEW and its political and intellectual development from 1962 to the present. Perry Anderson, Robin Blackburn et al. emerged as the leading figures of a second new left around the NEW LEFT REVIEW six years after the new left first emerged in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Hungary and Britain and France’s invasion of Suez. Thompson traces NLR’s attempts to develop socialist politics, through the ‘old’ Labour of Harold Wilson, through heady days in 1968, through new Marxist theory, through the Cold War years and into the era of contemporary capitalist globalisation. He surveys the achievements of NLR: a respectable academic reputation has been won, but it has not succeeded in achieving or facilitating the primary goal of the second New Left, that of finding a strategy for transition to socialism.

Free Download Ritwick Bhattacharjee, "Humanity’s Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy"
English | ISBN: 9389000505 | 2020 | 0 pages | PDF | 51 MB
Humanity’s Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy interrogates the nature of reality against fantasy as the two are presented to and created by the human consciousness-a consciousness that is in constant struggle with the omnipresence of misery and the inevitability of death. The book shows that being, pessimism, and fantasy as the strings which are made up of forces unseen, unknown, and ungoverned that control the human being like a puppet.