The Pleasures of Pessimism 9780647530764, 9780647530757

Pessimism

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The Pleasures of Horror 9781472597793

Pleasures of Horror is a stimulating and insightful exploration of horror fictions—literary, cinematic and televisual—an

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The Pleasures of Counting 052156087X, 0521568234, 9780521560870

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The Art of England and The Pleasures of England 9781411460232

Culled from lectures delivered at Oxford from 1883-1885, this collection of Ruskin's critiques of the overall condi

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Pessimism: A Lecture

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The Necessities of War. a Study of Thucydides’ Pessimism 9780231887052

Attempts to reach the mind of the historian and writer Thucydides, with a particular focus on his pessimism as he works

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Cultural Pessimism: Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World 9781474464345

Cultural pessimism arises with the conviction that the culture of a nation, a civilisation or of humanity itself is in a

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Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering 9780691226156

An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still

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The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing 9780300127195

“I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or

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The pleasures of cooking for one 9780307270726, 0307270726

From the legendary editor of some of the world’s greatest cooks—including Julia Child and James Beard—a passionate and p

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