Saints of Pessimism

Author Name: Eugene Thacker

“Brings a great deal of misery, and a lot of company.” – The New York Times
“Placed alongside the works of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer… Thacker’s voice is quiet, a desperate whisper amidst the emptiness that haunts and breaks the heart at the same time.” – Into the Void

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Is the path to salvation in this world on the brink of extinction to reread these philosophers, whom the author calls "the saints of pessimism," and engage with their worldview, as well as with the vision and reflections of the modern pessimistic philosopher Eugene Thacker?
Thacker searches for the keys to the biographies of these philosophers and the effects of life on them, shedding light on the pivotal moments in which they were forced to live out their pessimism: Schopenhauer confronted by an empty lecture hall in Berlin, Nietzsche silently trapped in his deceitful sister's house, Cioran struggling with Alzheimer's disease in his small writing cellar in the Latin Quarter of Paris.
An alternative, inspiring, and enjoyable reading of the biographies of a number of the most important philosophers of pessimism, such as: Chamfort, Cioran, Kierkegaard, Leopardi, Lichtenberg, Mainlander, de Montaigne, Nietzsche, Pascal, Schopenhauer, and de Unamuno.