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== Primary literature == | == Primary literature == | ||
=== Books === | === Books === | ||
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* {{cite book |last=Becker |first=Ernest |author-link=Ernest Becker |title=The Denial of Death |publisher=Free Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-4165-9034-7 |title-link=The Denial of Death}} | |||
⚫ | * {{cite book |last=Bahnsen |first=Julius |author-link=Julius Bahnsen |title=Das Tragische als Weltgesetz und der Humor als ästhetische Gestalt des Metaphysischen |trans-title=The Tragical as World Law and Humor as Aesthetic Shape of the Metaphysical |date=1877 |location=Lauenberg |publisher=Verlag von F. Ferley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LtoHIbJIVFkC}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Benatar |first=David |author-link=David Benatar |title=Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0199296422 |title-link=Better Never to Have Been}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Benatar |first=David |author-link=David Benatar |title=The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions |title-link=The Human Predicament |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-19-063381-3 |language=en}} | * {{cite book |last=Benatar |first=David |author-link=David Benatar |title=The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions |title-link=The Human Predicament |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-19-063381-3 |language=en}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Cabrera |first=Julio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INl9DwAAQBAJ |title=Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-5275-1803-2 |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |language=en |oclc=1078636651}} | * {{cite book |last=Cabrera |first=Julio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INl9DwAAQBAJ |title=Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-5275-1803-2 |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |language=en |oclc=1078636651 |author-link=Julio Cabrera (philosopher)}} | ||
* {{Cite book |last=Camus |first=Albert |title=The Myth of Sisyphus |year=2018 |orig-date=1942 |publisher=Vintage |author-link=Albert Camus |isbn=978-0525564454 |title-link=The Myth of Sisyphus |language=en}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Cioran |first=Emil |author-link=Emil Cioran |title=A Short History of Decay |date=2012 |orig-date=1949 |publisher=Arcade Publishing |location=New York |translator-last=Howard |translator-first=Richard |title-link=A Short History of Decay (book) |trans-title=Précis de decomposition |ISBN=978-1-61145-736-0}} | * {{cite book |last=Cioran |first=Emil |author-link=Emil Cioran |title=A Short History of Decay |date=2012 |orig-date=1949 |publisher=Arcade Publishing |location=New York |translator-last=Howard |translator-first=Richard |title-link=A Short History of Decay (book) |trans-title=Précis de decomposition |ISBN=978-1-61145-736-0}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Cooper |first=David E. |title=Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge |date=2024 |author-link=David E. Cooper |publisher=Agenda |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |ISBN=978-1788217705}} | |||
* {{Cite book |last=Dalton |first=Drew M. |title=The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism |year=2023 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |location=Evanston |author-link=Drew Dalton |isbn=978-0810146402 |language=en}} | * {{Cite book |last=Dalton |first=Drew M. |title=The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism |year=2023 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |location=Evanston |author-link=Drew Dalton |isbn=978-0810146402 |language=en}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Leopardi |first=Giacomo |author-link=Giacomo Leopardi |title=Essays and Dialogues |date=1882 |orig-date=1827 |translator-last=Edwardes |translator-first=Charles |trans-title=Operette Morali |title-link=Small Moral Works |location=London |publisher=Trübner & co., Lundgate Hill}} | * {{cite book |last=Leopardi |first=Giacomo |author-link=Giacomo Leopardi |title=Essays and Dialogues |date=1882 |orig-date=1827 |translator-last=Edwardes |translator-first=Charles |trans-title=Operette Morali |title-link=Small Moral Works |location=London |publisher=Trübner & co., Lundgate Hill}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Mainländer |first=Philipp |title=Philosophy of Redemption |date=2024 |orig-date=1876 |author-link=Philipp Mainländer |trans-title=Die Philosophie der Erlösung |location=Brisbane |publisher=Irukandji Press |ISBN=978-0-6454980-7-3}} | * {{cite book |last=Mainländer |first=Philipp |title=Philosophy of Redemption |date=2024 |orig-date=1876 |author-link=Philipp Mainländer |trans-title=Die Philosophie der Erlösung |location=Brisbane |publisher=Irukandji Press |ISBN=978-0-6454980-7-3}} | ||
* {{Cite book |last=Michelstaedter |first=Carlo |title=Persuasion and Rhetoric |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2004 | author-link=Carlo Michelstaedter |isbn=9780300104349}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Unamuno |first=Miguel de |title=The Tragic Sense of Life |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14636/14636-h/14636-h.htm |access-date=1 November 2024 | author-link=Miguel de Unamuno}} | |||
* {{cite book |title=The World as Will and Representation |date=2010 |orig-date=1818 |volume=1 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511780943 |isbn=978-0-521-87184-6 |author-last=Schopenhauer |author-first=Arthur |editor-last=Welchman |editor-first=Alistair |editor2-last=Janaway |editor2-first=Christopher |editor3-last=Norman |editor3-first=Judith |author-link1=Arthur Schopenhauer |title-link=The World as Will and Representation}} | * {{cite book |title=The World as Will and Representation |date=2010 |orig-date=1818 |volume=1 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511780943 |isbn=978-0-521-87184-6 |author-last=Schopenhauer |author-first=Arthur |editor-last=Welchman |editor-first=Alistair |editor2-last=Janaway |editor2-first=Christopher |editor3-last=Norman |editor3-first=Judith |author-link1=Arthur Schopenhauer |title-link=The World as Will and Representation}} | ||
* {{cite book |title=The World as Will and Representation |date=2018 |orig-date=1844 |volume=2 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/9780511843112 |isbn=978-0-521-87034-4 |author-last=Schopenhauer |author-first=Arthur |editor-last=Welchman |editor-first=Alistair |editor2-last=Janaway |editor2-first=Christopher |editor3-last=Norman |editor3-first=Judith |author-link1=Arthur Schopenhauer |title-link=The World as Will and Representation}} | * {{cite book |title=The World as Will and Representation |date=2018 |orig-date=1844 |volume=2 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/9780511843112 |isbn=978-0-521-87034-4 |author-last=Schopenhauer |author-first=Arthur |editor-last=Welchman |editor-first=Alistair |editor2-last=Janaway |editor2-first=Christopher |editor3-last=Norman |editor3-first=Judith |author-link1=Arthur Schopenhauer |title-link=The World as Will and Representation}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=von Hartmann |first=Eduard |author-link=Eduard von Hartmann |title=Philosophy of the Unconscious: Speculative Results According to the Inductive Method of Physical Science |title-link=Philosophy of the Unconscious |date=1884 |orig-date=1869 |translator-last=Coupland |translator-first=William Chatterton |location=London |publisher=Trübner & co., Lundgate Hill}} | * {{cite book |last=von Hartmann |first=Eduard |author-link=Eduard von Hartmann |title=Philosophy of the Unconscious: Speculative Results According to the Inductive Method of Physical Science |title-link=Philosophy of the Unconscious |date=1884 |orig-date=1869 |translator-last=Coupland |translator-first=William Chatterton |location=London |publisher=Trübner & co., Lundgate Hill}} | ||
* {{Cite book |last=Zapffe |first=Peter Wessel |title=On the Tragic |year=2024 |orig-date=1941 |publisher=Peter Lang |publication-place=New York |translator-last=Showler |translator-first=Ryan L. |author-link=Peter Wessel Zapffe |isbn=978-1-636-67488-9 |doi=10.3726/b20965 |lccn=2023043423}} | * {{Cite book |last=Zapffe |first=Peter Wessel |title=On the Tragic |year=2024 |orig-date=1941 |publisher=Peter Lang |publication-place=New York |translator-last=Showler |translator-first=Ryan L. |author-link=Peter Wessel Zapffe |isbn=978-1-636-67488-9 |doi=10.3726/b20965 |lccn=2023043423}} | ||
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=== Book chapters === | |||
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* {{cite book |author-last=Metzinger |author-first=Thomas |chapter=Suffering |pages=237–262 |date=2017 |editor-last1=Almqvist |editor-first1=Kurt |editor-last2=Haag |editor-first2=Anders |title=The Return of Consciousness |chapter-url=https://www.philosophie-e.fb05.uni-mainz.de/files/2013/07/Metzinger_Suffering_2017.pdf |author-link=Thomas Metzinger |location=Stockholm |publisher=Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation |isbn=978-91-89672-90-1}} | |||
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=== Essays === | === Essays === | ||
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* {{cite magazine |last= |
* {{cite magazine |last=Tønnessen |first=Herman |title=Happiness is for the Pigs |date=1966 |orig-date= |author-link=Herman Tønnessen |translator-last= |translator-first= |url=https://archive.org/details/herman-tennessen-happiness-is-for-the-pigs_202111 |magazine=Journal of Existentialism |issue=VII |pages=181–214 |issn= |access-date= |archive-date= |url-status=live}} | ||
* {{cite magazine |last=Zapffe |first=Peter Wessel |title=The Last Messiah |date=2004 |orig-date=1933 |author-link=Peter Wessel Zapffe |translator-last=Tangenes |translator-first=Gisle R. |url=https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah |magazine=Philosophy Now |issue=45 |pages=35–39 |issn=0961-5970 |access-date=2022-09-18 |archive-date=2020-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922195739/https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah |url-status=live}} | |||
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=== Academic papers === | === Academic papers === | ||
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* {{cite journal |last=Contestabile |first=Bruno |title=The Denial of the World from an Impartial View |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/w2bQ5j5xVahrmnPUrjqQ/full |journal=Contemporary Buddhism |date=2016 |volume=17 |pages=49–61 |doi=10.1080/14639947.2015.1104003 |s2cid=148168698 |access-date=2022-09-18 |archive-date=2020-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928113009/https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/w2bQ5j5xVahrmnPUrjqQ/full/ |url-status=live }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902205249/https://www.socrethics.com/Folder2/WorldDenial.htm |date=2023-09-02 }} | * {{cite journal |last=Contestabile |first=Bruno |title=The Denial of the World from an Impartial View |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/w2bQ5j5xVahrmnPUrjqQ/full |journal=Contemporary Buddhism |date=2016 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=49–61 |doi=10.1080/14639947.2015.1104003 |s2cid=148168698 |access-date=2022-09-18 |archive-date=2020-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928113009/https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/w2bQ5j5xVahrmnPUrjqQ/full/ |url-status=live }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902205249/https://www.socrethics.com/Folder2/WorldDenial.htm |date=2023-09-02 }} | ||
* {{cite journal |last= |
* {{cite journal |last=Kahane |first=Guy |title=Was evolution worth it? |date=2023 |journal=Philosophical Studies |volume=180 |issue=1 |pages=249–271 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-022-01893-4 |doi=10.1007/s11098-022-01893-4 |archive-date=2023-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322170412/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-022-01893-4|doi-access=free }} | ||
* {{cite journal |last=Prescott |first=Paul |title=What Pessimism Is |url=https://www.pdcnet.org/jpr/content/jpr_2012_0037_0337_0356 |journal=Journal of Philosophical Research |date=2012 |volume=37 |pages=337–356 |doi=10.5840/jpr20123716}} | |||
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== Secondary literature == | == Secondary literature == | ||
=== Books === | === Books === | ||
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* {{cite book |last=Beiser |first=Frederick C. |author-link1=Frederick C. Beiser |title=Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-19-876871-5 |edition= |location=Oxford |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drrmCwAAQBAJ |language=en |oclc=929590292 |access-date=2023-03-22 |archive-date=2024-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240929041802/https://books.google.com/books?id=drrmCwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }} | * {{cite book |last=Beiser |first=Frederick C. |author-link1=Frederick C. Beiser |title=Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-19-876871-5 |edition= |location=Oxford |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drrmCwAAQBAJ |language=en |oclc=929590292 |access-date=2023-03-22 |archive-date=2024-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240929041802/https://books.google.com/books?id=drrmCwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Coates |first=Ken |
* {{cite book |last=Coates |first=Ken |title=Anti-Natalism: Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar |publisher=First Edition Design Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=978-1506-902-40-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GolAwAAQBAJ}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Dienstag |first=Joshua Foa |title=Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-691-14112-1 |location=Princeton, New Jersey}} | * {{cite book |last=Dienstag |first=Joshua Foa |title=Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-691-14112-1 |location=Princeton, New Jersey}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Feltham |first=Colin |title=Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |ISBN=978-1-317-58482-7}} | * {{cite book |last=Feltham |first=Colin |title=Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |ISBN=978-1-317-58482-7}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Hassan |first=Patrick |title=Nietzsche's Struggle against Pessimism |date=2023 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |ISBN=978-1009380270}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Ligotti |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Ligotti |title=The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror |title-link=The Conspiracy Against the Human Race |publisher=Hippocampus Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-9844802-7-2 |location=New York |oclc=805656473}} | * {{cite book |last=Ligotti |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Ligotti |title=The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror |title-link=The Conspiracy Against the Human Race |publisher=Hippocampus Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-9844802-7-2 |location=New York |oclc=805656473}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Saltus |first=Edgar |author-link=Edgar Saltus |title=The Philosophy of Disenchantment |date=1885 |location=New York |publisher=Belford |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40079 |access-date=2022-12-06 |archive-date=2023-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805080502/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40079 |url-status=live }} | * {{cite book |last=Saltus |first=Edgar |author-link=Edgar Saltus |title=The Philosophy of Disenchantment |date=1885 |location=New York |publisher=Belford |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40079 |access-date=2022-12-06 |archive-date=2023-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805080502/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40079 |url-status=live }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Segev |first=Mor |title=The Value of the World and of Oneself: Philosophical Optimism and Pessimism from Aristotle to Modernity |date=2022 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |ISBN=978-0-197-63407-3}} | * {{cite book |last=Segev |first=Mor |title=The Value of the World and of Oneself: Philosophical Optimism and Pessimism from Aristotle to Modernity |date=2022 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |ISBN=978-0-197-63407-3}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Sully |first=James |
* {{cite book |last=Sully |first=James |title=Pessimism: A History and a Criticism |publisher=Henry S. King & Co. |year=1877 |location=London |language=en |author-link=James Sully |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEsVAAAAYAAJ}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Tsanoff |first=Radoslav A. |title=The Nature of Evil |date=1931 |location=New York |publisher=The MacMillan Company}} | * {{cite book |last=Tsanoff |first=Radoslav A. |title=The Nature of Evil |date=1931 |location=New York |publisher=The MacMillan Company}} | ||
* {{cite book |author-last=van der Lugt |author-first=Mara |title=Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering |date=2021 |location=Princeton |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-20662-2}} | * {{cite book |author-last=van der Lugt |author-first=Mara |title=Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering |date=2021 |location=Princeton |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-20662-2}} | ||
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=== Book chapters === | === Book chapters === | ||
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* {{cite book |last=Cholbi |first=Michael |chapter=Schopenhauer, Suicide, and Contemporary Pessimism |editor-last=Hassan |editor-first=Patrick |title=Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |date=2021 |pages=141–159 |doi=10.4324/9781003090953-8 |isbn=978-0367547721}} | |||
* {{cite book |editor-last=Janaway |editor-first=Christopher |title=The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer |author-last=Janaway |author-first=Christopher |chapter=Schopenhauer's Pessimism |date=1999 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=318–343 |isbn=978-0521621069 |doi=10.1017/CCOL0521621062.011}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Simmons |first=Byron |chapter=Schopenhauer's Pessimism |pages=282–296 |editor-last1=Bather Woods |editor-first1=David |editor-last2=Stoll |editor-first2=Timothy |title=The Schopenhauerian Mind |date=2024 |publisher=Routledge |location=Oxon |isbn=9780367501532 |chapter-url=https://philarchive.org/archive/SIMSPD}} | * {{cite book |last=Simmons |first=Byron |chapter=Schopenhauer's Pessimism |pages=282–296 |editor-last1=Bather Woods |editor-first1=David |editor-last2=Stoll |editor-first2=Timothy |title=The Schopenhauerian Mind |date=2024 |publisher=Routledge |location=Oxon |isbn=9780367501532 |chapter-url=https://philarchive.org/archive/SIMSPD}} | ||
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=== Academic papers === | === Academic papers === | ||
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* {{cite journal |author-last=Fox |author-first=Joshua Isaac |title=Does Schopenhauer Accept Any Positive Pleasures? |date=2022 |journal=European Journal of Philosophy |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=902–913 |doi=10.1111/ejop.12830|doi-access=free }} | |||
* {{cite journal |last=Hassan |first=Patrick |title=Individual vs. World in Schopenhauer's Pessimism |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjp.12401 |journal=The Southern Journal of Philosophy |date=2021 |volume=59 |pages=122–152 |doi=10.1111/sjp.12401 |s2cid=234303325 |issue=2 |access-date=2023-08-18 |archive-date=2023-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818202333/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjp.12401 |url-status=live }} | * {{cite journal |last=Hassan |first=Patrick |title=Individual vs. World in Schopenhauer's Pessimism |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjp.12401 |journal=The Southern Journal of Philosophy |date=2021 |volume=59 |pages=122–152 |doi=10.1111/sjp.12401 |s2cid=234303325 |issue=2 |access-date=2023-08-18 |archive-date=2023-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818202333/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjp.12401 |url-status=live }} | ||
* {{cite journal |last=Hassan |first=Patrick |title=Striving as Suffering: Schopenhauer's A Priori Argument for Pessimism |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-020-00316-0 |journal=Philosophia |date=2021 |volume=49 |pages=1487–1505 |doi=10.1007/s11406-020-00316-0 |s2cid=234157970 |issue=4 |access-date=2023-08-18 |archive-date=2023-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818202653/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-020-00316-0 |url-status=live }} | * {{cite journal |last=Hassan |first=Patrick |title=Striving as Suffering: Schopenhauer's A Priori Argument for Pessimism |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-020-00316-0 |journal=Philosophia |date=2021 |volume=49 |pages=1487–1505 |doi=10.1007/s11406-020-00316-0 |s2cid=234157970 |issue=4 |access-date=2023-08-18 |archive-date=2023-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818202653/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-020-00316-0 |url-status=live }} | ||
* {{cite journal |author-last=Janaway |author-first=Christopher |title=Schopenhauer on the Aimlessness of the Will |date=2018 |journal=British Journal for the History of Philosophy |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=331–347 |doi=10.1080/09608788.2017.1393619 |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/414966/1/Sch_on_aimlessness_Oct_17_final.doc |access-date=2023-11-05 |archive-date=2023-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105124921/https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/414966/1/Sch_on_aimlessness_Oct_17_final.doc |url-status=live}} | |||
* {{cite journal |last=Janaway |first=Christopher |title=Worse than the best possible pessimism? Olga Plümacher's critique of Schopenhauer |journal=British Journal for the History of Philosophy |date=2022 |volume=30 |pages=211–230 |doi=10.1080/09608788.2021.1881441 |s2cid=233897050|issue=2|doi-access=free }} | * {{cite journal |last=Janaway |first=Christopher |title=Worse than the best possible pessimism? Olga Plümacher's critique of Schopenhauer |journal=British Journal for the History of Philosophy |date=2022 |volume=30 |pages=211–230 |doi=10.1080/09608788.2021.1881441 |s2cid=233897050|issue=2|doi-access=free }} | ||
* {{cite journal |last= |
* {{cite journal |last=Prescott |first=Paul |title=What Pessimism Is |date=2012 |journal=Journal of Philosophical Research |volume=37 |pages=337–356 |doi=10.5840/jpr20123716 |url=https://philpapers.org/archive/PREWPI.pdf |access-date=2023-09-01 |archive-date=2023-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231012192849/https://philpapers.org/archive/PREWPI.pdf |url-status=live}} | ||
* {{cite journal |last=Simmons |first=Byron |title=A Thousand Pleasures Are Not Worth a Single Pain: The Compensation Argument for Schopenhauer's Pessimism |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ejop.12561 |journal=European Journal of Philosophy |date=2021 |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=120–136 |doi=10.1111/ejop.12561 |s2cid=225685721 |access-date=2023-08-18 |archive-date=2023-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818201620/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ejop.12561 |url-status=live}} | |||
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=== PhD theses === | |||
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* {{cite thesis |last=Dahlkvist |first=Tobias |title=Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism. A Study of Nietzsche’s Relation to the Pessimistic Tradition: Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi |date=2007 |degree=PhD |publisher=Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis |location=Uppsala |series=Uppsala Studies in History of Ideas |volume=35 |ISBN=978-91-554-6963-4 |ISSN=1653-5197 |url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A170685&dswid=9336}} | |||
* {{cite thesis |last=Fox |first=Joshua Isaac |title=Existential Pessimism and Aesthetic Experience: Mill, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche on Life's Value |date=2021 |degree=PhD |publisher=The University of Chicago |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3333/files/Fox_uchicago_0330D_15855.pdf |format=PDF}} | |||
* {{cite thesis |last=Moya |first=Ignacio L. |title=Human Extinction in the Pessimist Tradition |date=2023 |degree=PhD |publisher=The University of Western Ontario |url=https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/9318}} | |||
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== Books in other languages == | |||
There are also some works that have no English translations or which translated versions vary to a high degree with respect to the original. | |||
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⚫ | * {{cite book |last=Bahnsen |first=Julius |author-link=Julius Bahnsen |title=Das Tragische als Weltgesetz und der Humor als ästhetische Gestalt des Metaphysischen |trans-title=The Tragical as World Law and Humor as Aesthetic Shape of the Metaphysical |date=1877 |location=Lauenberg |publisher=Verlag von F. Ferley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LtoHIbJIVFkC |language=de}} | ||
* {{Cite book |last=Cabrera |first=Julio |title=Mal-estar e moralidade: situação humana, ética e procriação responsável |trans-title=Discomfort and morality: the human situation, ethics and responsible procreation |author-link=Julio Cabrera (philosopher) |date=2018 |location=Brasília |publisher=Editora Universidade de Brasília |isbn=978-85-230-1218-2 |language=pt-br}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Cabrera |first=Julio |author-link=Julio Cabrera |title=La Forma Del Mundo: Ensayo sobre la muerte del ser. Elementos de Metafilosofía Primera. |trans-title=The Form Of The World: Essay on the death of being. Elements of the First Metaphilosophy |date=2020 |publisher=Ed. do Autor |location=Florianópolis |url=https://repositorio.unb.br/jspui/handle/10482/44872 |ISBN=978-6500084023 | language=es}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Mainländer |first=Philipp |author-link=Philipp Mainländer |title=Die Philosophie Der Erlosung. Erster Band |trans-title=Philosophy of Redemption. Volume 1 |date=1996 |orig-date=1876 |publisher=Olms, Georg Verlag AG |ISBN=978-3487095561 |language=de}} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Mainländer |first=Philipp |author-link=Philipp Mainländer |title=Die Philosophie Der Erlosung. Zweiter Band |trans-title=Philosophy of Redemption. Volume 2 |date=1996 |orig-date=1886 |publisher=Olms, Georg Verlag AG |ISBN=978-3487095578 |language=de}} | |||
* {{Cite book |last=Horstmann |first=Ulrich |author-link=Ulrich Horstmann |title=Das Untier: Konturen einer Philosophie der Menschenflucht |publisher=Suhrkamp |year=1985 |isbn=978-3518376720 |language=de}} | |||
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Latest revision as of 05:38, 30 December 2024
Bibliography of books & papersA bibliography of books and academic papers on philosophical pessimism — a philosophical tradition which argues that life is not worth living and that non-existence is preferable to existence.
Primary literature
Books
- Becker, Ernest (2007). The Denial of Death. Free Press. ISBN 978-1-4165-9034-7.
- Benatar, David (2006). Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199296422.
- Benatar, David (2017). The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-063381-3.
- Cabrera, Julio (2019). Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-1803-2. OCLC 1078636651.
- Camus, Albert (2018) . The Myth of Sisyphus. Vintage. ISBN 978-0525564454.
- Cioran, Emil (2012) . A Short History of Decay [Précis de decomposition]. Translated by Howard, Richard. New York: Arcade Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61145-736-0.
- Cooper, David E. (2024). Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda. ISBN 978-1788217705.
- Dalton, Drew M. (2023). The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0810146402.
- Leopardi, Giacomo (1882) . Essays and Dialogues [Operette Morali]. Translated by Edwardes, Charles. London: Trübner & co., Lundgate Hill.
- Mainländer, Philipp (2024) . Philosophy of Redemption [Die Philosophie der Erlösung]. Brisbane: Irukandji Press. ISBN 978-0-6454980-7-3.
- Michelstaedter, Carlo (2004). Persuasion and Rhetoric. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300104349.
- Unamuno, Miguel de. The Tragic Sense of Life. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur (2010) . Welchman, Alistair; Janaway, Christopher; Norman, Judith (eds.). The World as Will and Representation. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511780943. ISBN 978-0-521-87184-6.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur (2018) . Welchman, Alistair; Janaway, Christopher; Norman, Judith (eds.). The World as Will and Representation. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9780511843112. ISBN 978-0-521-87034-4.
- von Hartmann, Eduard (1884) . Philosophy of the Unconscious: Speculative Results According to the Inductive Method of Physical Science. Translated by Coupland, William Chatterton. London: Trübner & co., Lundgate Hill.
- Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2024) . On the Tragic. Translated by Showler, Ryan L. New York: Peter Lang. doi:10.3726/b20965. ISBN 978-1-636-67488-9. LCCN 2023043423.
Book chapters
- Metzinger, Thomas (2017). "Suffering" (PDF). In Almqvist, Kurt; Haag, Anders (eds.). The Return of Consciousness. Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation. pp. 237–262. ISBN 978-91-89672-90-1.
Essays
- Tønnessen, Herman (1966). "Happiness is for the Pigs". Journal of Existentialism. No. VII. pp. 181–214.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2004) . "The Last Messiah". Philosophy Now. No. 45. Translated by Tangenes, Gisle R. pp. 35–39. ISSN 0961-5970. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
Academic papers
- Contestabile, Bruno (2016). "The Denial of the World from an Impartial View". Contemporary Buddhism. 17 (1): 49–61. doi:10.1080/14639947.2015.1104003. S2CID 148168698. Archived from the original on 2020-09-28. Retrieved 2022-09-18. Penultimate draft Archived 2023-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Kahane, Guy (2023). "Was evolution worth it?". Philosophical Studies. 180 (1): 249–271. doi:10.1007/s11098-022-01893-4. Archived from the original on 2023-03-22.
- Prescott, Paul (2012). "What Pessimism Is". Journal of Philosophical Research. 37: 337–356. doi:10.5840/jpr20123716.
Secondary literature
Books
- Beiser, Frederick C. (2016). Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-876871-5. OCLC 929590292. Archived from the original on 2024-09-29. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- Coates, Ken (2016). Anti-Natalism: Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar. First Edition Design Publishing. ISBN 978-1506-902-40-1.
- Dienstag, Joshua Foa (2009). Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14112-1.
- Feltham, Colin (2016). Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-58482-7.
- Hassan, Patrick (2023). Nietzsche's Struggle against Pessimism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1009380270.
- Ligotti, Thomas (2011). The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. New York: Hippocampus Press. ISBN 978-0-9844802-7-2. OCLC 805656473.
- Saltus, Edgar (1885). The Philosophy of Disenchantment. New York: Belford. Archived from the original on 2023-08-05. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
- Segev, Mor (2022). The Value of the World and of Oneself: Philosophical Optimism and Pessimism from Aristotle to Modernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-197-63407-3.
- Sully, James (1877). Pessimism: A History and a Criticism. London: Henry S. King & Co.
- Tsanoff, Radoslav A. (1931). The Nature of Evil. New York: The MacMillan Company.
- van der Lugt, Mara (2021). Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20662-2.
Book chapters
- Cholbi, Michael (2021). "Schopenhauer, Suicide, and Contemporary Pessimism". In Hassan, Patrick (ed.). Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy. New York: Routledge. pp. 141–159. doi:10.4324/9781003090953-8. ISBN 978-0367547721.
- Janaway, Christopher (1999). "Schopenhauer's Pessimism". In Janaway, Christopher (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 318–343. doi:10.1017/CCOL0521621062.011. ISBN 978-0521621069.
- Simmons, Byron (2024). "Schopenhauer's Pessimism". In Bather Woods, David; Stoll, Timothy (eds.). The Schopenhauerian Mind. Oxon: Routledge. pp. 282–296. ISBN 9780367501532.
Academic papers
- Fox, Joshua Isaac (2022). "Does Schopenhauer Accept Any Positive Pleasures?". European Journal of Philosophy. 31 (4): 902–913. doi:10.1111/ejop.12830.
- Hassan, Patrick (2021). "Individual vs. World in Schopenhauer's Pessimism". The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 59 (2): 122–152. doi:10.1111/sjp.12401. S2CID 234303325. Archived from the original on 2023-08-18. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
- Hassan, Patrick (2021). "Striving as Suffering: Schopenhauer's A Priori Argument for Pessimism". Philosophia. 49 (4): 1487–1505. doi:10.1007/s11406-020-00316-0. S2CID 234157970. Archived from the original on 2023-08-18. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
- Janaway, Christopher (2018). "Schopenhauer on the Aimlessness of the Will". British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 26 (2): 331–347. doi:10.1080/09608788.2017.1393619. Archived from the original on 2023-11-05. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- Janaway, Christopher (2022). "Worse than the best possible pessimism? Olga Plümacher's critique of Schopenhauer". British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 30 (2): 211–230. doi:10.1080/09608788.2021.1881441. S2CID 233897050.
- Prescott, Paul (2012). "What Pessimism Is" (PDF). Journal of Philosophical Research. 37: 337–356. doi:10.5840/jpr20123716. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-10-12. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
- Simmons, Byron (2021). "A Thousand Pleasures Are Not Worth a Single Pain: The Compensation Argument for Schopenhauer's Pessimism". European Journal of Philosophy. 29 (1): 120–136. doi:10.1111/ejop.12561. S2CID 225685721. Archived from the original on 2023-08-18. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
PhD theses
- Dahlkvist, Tobias (2007). Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism. A Study of Nietzsche’s Relation to the Pessimistic Tradition: Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi (PhD thesis). Uppsala Studies in History of Ideas. Vol. 35. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-6963-4. ISSN 1653-5197.
- Fox, Joshua Isaac (2021). Existential Pessimism and Aesthetic Experience: Mill, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche on Life's Value (PDF) (PhD thesis). Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago.
- Moya, Ignacio L. (2023). Human Extinction in the Pessimist Tradition (PhD thesis). The University of Western Ontario.
Books in other languages
There are also some works that have no English translations or which translated versions vary to a high degree with respect to the original.
- Bahnsen, Julius (1877). Das Tragische als Weltgesetz und der Humor als ästhetische Gestalt des Metaphysischen [The Tragical as World Law and Humor as Aesthetic Shape of the Metaphysical] (in German). Lauenberg: Verlag von F. Ferley.
- Cabrera, Julio (2018). Mal-estar e moralidade: situação humana, ética e procriação responsável [Discomfort and morality: the human situation, ethics and responsible procreation] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Brasília: Editora Universidade de Brasília. ISBN 978-85-230-1218-2.
- Cabrera, Julio (2020). La Forma Del Mundo: Ensayo sobre la muerte del ser. Elementos de Metafilosofía Primera [The Form Of The World: Essay on the death of being. Elements of the First Metaphilosophy] (in Spanish). Florianópolis: Ed. do Autor. ISBN 978-6500084023.
- Mainländer, Philipp (1996) . Die Philosophie Der Erlosung. Erster Band [Philosophy of Redemption. Volume 1] (in German). Olms, Georg Verlag AG. ISBN 978-3487095561.
- Mainländer, Philipp (1996) . Die Philosophie Der Erlosung. Zweiter Band [Philosophy of Redemption. Volume 2] (in German). Olms, Georg Verlag AG. ISBN 978-3487095578.
- Horstmann, Ulrich (1985). Das Untier: Konturen einer Philosophie der Menschenflucht (in German). Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3518376720.
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