List of philosophical pessimists
Sortable list of philosophers of pessimism
List of philosophers who have notably expressed philosophically pessimistic views in their works and contributed to its history .
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References
^ a b c d e f Beiser, Frederick C. (2016). Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900 . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-876871-5 . OCLC 929590292 .
^ a b c d e Sully, James (1877). Pessimism: A History and a Criticism . London: Henry S. King & Co.
^ 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 .
^ a b c d Coates, Ken (2016). Anti-Natalism: Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar . First Edition Design Publishing. ISBN 978-1506-902-40-1 .
^ a b c d Prescott, Paul (2012). "What Pessimism Is" (PDF) . Journal of Philosophical Research . 37 : 337– 356. doi :10.5840/jpr20123716 .
^ Sully, James (1877). Pessimism: A History and a Criticism . London: Henry S. King & Co. p. 38 .
^ a b 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 .
^ 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 . Translated by O'Brien, Justin. New York: Vintage International. ISBN 978-0-525-56700-4 . OCLC 1076457902 .
^ a b c d e f Dienstag, Joshua Foa (2009). Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14112-1 .
^ a b c d e f g van der Lugt, Mara (2021). Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering . Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20662-2 .
^ Caraco, Albert (1982). Le bréviaire du chaos (in French).
^ Laërtius, Diogenes (2018). The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers . Translated by Yonge, Charles Duke . Project Gutenberg .
^ Dalton, Drew M. (October 15, 2023). The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism . Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0810146402 . {{cite book }}
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^ Horstmann, Ulrich (1985). Das Untier: Konturen einer Philosophie der Menschenflucht (in German). Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3518376720 .
^ a b Rozveh, Nasser Ghasemi (2013). "The Comparative Survey of Pessimism in Abul Ala Al-Maarri and Hakim Omar Khayyam Poems" (PDF) . Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research . 3 (3): 405– 413. ISSN 2090-4304 .
^ Michelstaedter, Carlo (2004). Persuasion and Rhetoric . Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300104349 .
^ Schopenhauer, Arthur (2010) [1818]. 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) [1844]. 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 .
^ Thacker, Eugene (July 17, 2018). Infinite Resignation . Repeater. ISBN 978-1912248193 .
^ Herman Tønnessen - Happiness is for the Pigs: Philosophy versus Psychotherapy (1966)
^ Unamuno, Miguel de. The Tragic Sense of Life . Retrieved 1 November 2024 .
^ Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2004) [1933]. "The Last Messiah" . Philosophy Now . No. 45. Translated by Tangenes, Gisle R. pp. 35– 39. ISSN 0961-5970 .
^ Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2024). On the Tragic . Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-1-636-67488-9 .