The climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and disasters intensify, we are asked to maintain optimism and hope, as if the real threat is pessimism and despair. In this erudite and engaging book, Mara van der Lugt argues that this is a mistake: crude optimism can no longer be a virtue in a breaking world, and may well prove to be our besetting vi...(展开全部)

The climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and disasters intensify, we are asked to maintain optimism and hope, as if the real threat is pessimism and despair. In this erudite and engaging book, Mara van der Lugt argues that this is a mistake: crude optimism can no longer be a virtue in a breaking world, and may well prove to be our besetting vi...(展开全部)

"The night-side of thought." "A melodrama of the futility of the brain." "A poetry written in the graveyard of philosophy." So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indi...(展开全部)

"The night-side of thought." "A melodrama of the futility of the brain." "A poetry written in the graveyard of philosophy." So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indi...(展开全部)

荷兰新生代杰出思想家，历史学家、作家，曾为《华盛顿邮报》《卫报》撰稿。 荷兰知名记者，曾两次荣获欧洲新闻奖，被《卫报》誉为“荷兰新思想神童”。 曾出版多部关于历史、哲学和经济学的作品，其中《现实主义者的乌托邦》和《人类的善意》荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，被翻译成40多种语言，在全球引发强烈反响。

It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind mak...(展开全部)

It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind mak...(展开全部)

荷兰新生代杰出思想家，历史学家、作家，曾为《华盛顿邮报》《卫报》撰稿。 荷兰知名记者，曾两次荣获欧洲新闻奖，被《卫报》誉为“荷兰新思想神童”。 曾出版多部关于历史、哲学和经济学的作品，其中《现实主义者的乌托邦》和《人类的善意》荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，被翻译成40多种语言，在全球引发强烈反响。

A collection of aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism. Composed of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Eugene Thacker’s Infinite Resignation traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. By turns melancholic, misanthropic, and tinged with gallows humor, Thac...(展开全部)