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Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2007

Ryan Patrick Hanley
Ryan Patrick Hanley
Affiliation:
Marquette University
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Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit. By Joshua Foa Dienstag. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 314p. $35.00.

This stimulating book has two aims, one descriptive and one normative. Its first goal is to provide an “appraisal” of pessimism and recover it “as an important tradition in the history of political thought” alongside more familiar -isms. Its second goal is to offer an “endorsement” of this neglected tradition and “reanimate” it by presenting its “appeal” in such a way as to “recreate it” in us (pp. ix, xii–xiii, 265, 271).

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BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 603 - 604
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© 2007 American Political Science Association

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