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Pessimism and Individualism

Pessimism and Individualism

Watson, Kirk
Palante, Georges

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN13: 9798364913715
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 21 2022
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Georges Palante (1862-1925) is arguably the greatest theorist of individualism of his age. In this book he pushes his life-long exploration of individualism to the domain of emotion and affect, studying pessimism and individualism as emotional reactions to social life.

To test his ideas, he studies numerous writers and their ideas. He assembles, categorizes, and discusses many flavors of pessimism, writing chapters on each: Romantic and neo-Romantic, historical, misanthropic, irrationalistic, scientific, and theological pessimism.

The result of his study shows pessimism to be as a natural, although not necessarily universal, reaction of the individual to a feeling of alienation in society. Palante argues that pessimism produces, or tends to produce individualism. He also argues that those who start with individualism already carry the seeds of pessimism: there is a mutual attraction between these two attitudes.

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