Saints of pessimism

"Brings a great deal of misery, and much companionship" - The New York Times "Placed alongside the works of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer... a quiet voice, a desperate whisper amidst the emptiness that haunts the heart and breaks it at the same time" - Into the Void Is the way to salvation in this world, which stands on the brink of destruction, to re-read these philosophers whom the author called "saints of pessimism," and to engage with their view of the world, as well as with the perspective and reflections of the modern pessimist philosopher Eugene Thacker? Thacker seeks the keys to the lives of these philosophers and the effects of life within them, highlighting those pivotal moments when they were forced to live their pessimism: Schopenhauer facing an empty lecture hall in Berlin, Nietzsche silent and confined to his manipulative sister’s house, Sartrian battling Alzheimer’s in his small cellar where he writes in Latin in Paris. A different, inspiring — and enjoyable — reading of the lives of some of the most important pessimism philosophers such as: Schopenhauer, Sartrian, Kierkegaard, Leopardi, Lichtenberg, Meinlander, de Montaigne, Nietzsche, Pascal, Schopenhauer, De Unamuno. About the author Eugene Thacker is an American philosopher, poet, and author. He is a professor of media studies at The New School in New York City, and his writings are often associated with nihilistic philosophy and pessimism. About the translator Anwar Al-Shami, an Egyptian translator born in 1975, graduated from the Faculty of Languages at Ain Shams University. He practiced journalism for several years and wrote for some Arab newspapers and magazines. He translated many literary works and biographies from English, including novels by George Orwell and Haruki Murakami, "Economics of the Poor" by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and "I Am Malala" by Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai. He has published several translations with Dar Al-Karma, most notably "Visions of Madness: Memoirs of a Madman" by William Styron and the novel "Embrace" by Claire Keegan.