Roger Scruton

Broschiertes Buch

The Uses of Pessimism

And the Danger of False Hope

Beschreibung

This short book by Roger Scruton argues that optimism in its various forms has caused much of the human suffering and man-made catastrophes in human history, and that what our happiness truly requires is a sensible, measured pessimism -- pessimism in the sense of realism about the capacities and limits of human beings.

Autor

Roger Scruton is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University. He is the author of more than 30 books, including Beauty and Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780199968978
• ISBN-10: 0199968977
• Artikelnr.: 36144195