Misplaced Pages

List of philosophers who have notably expressed philosophically pessimistic views in their works and contributed to its history.

List

Image	Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Nationality
	Julius Bahnsen	30 March 1830	7 December 1881	German
	Ernest Becker	27 September 1924	6 March 1974	American
—	David Benatar	8 December 1966	—	South African
	Gautama Buddha	c. 563 BC	c. 483 BC	Indian
	Julio Cabrera	1944	—	Argentinian
	Albert Camus	7 November 1913	4 January 1960	French
	Albert Caraco	8 July 1919	7 September 1971	French-Uruguayan
	Emil Cioran	8 April 1911	20 June 1995	Romanian
—	David E. Cooper	1 October 1942	—	British
—	Hegesias	c. 290 BC	c. 290 BC	Greek
—	Drew Dalton	?	—	American
	Baltasar Gracián	8 January 1601	6 December 1658	Spanish
	John Gray	17 April 1948	—	English
	Eduard von Hartmann	23 February 1842	5 June 1906	German
—	Ulrich Horstmann	31 May 1949	—	German
	Omar Khayyam	18 May 1048	4 December 1131	Persian
	Giacomo Leopardi	29 June 1798	14 June 1837	Italian
—	Thomas Ligotti	9 July 1953	—	American
	Al- Ma'arri	December 973	May 1057	Arab
	Philipp Mainländer	5 October 1841	1 April 1876	German
	Carlo Michelstaedter	3 June 1887	17 October 1910	Italian
	Friedrich Nietzsche	15 October 1844	25 August 1900	German
	Olga Plümacher	27 May 1839	c. 15 June 1895	German
	Blaise Pascal	19 June 1623	19 August 1662	French
	Arthur Schopenhauer	22 February 1788	21 September 1860	German
—	Agnes Taubert	7 January 1844	8 May 1877	German
—	Eugene Thacker	?	—	American
—	Herman Tønnessen	24 July 1918	2001	Norwegian-Canadian
	Miguel de Unamuno	29 September 1864	31 December 1936	Spanish
	Peter Wessel Zapffe	18 December 1899	12 October 1990	Norwegian
	Ray Brassier	22 December 1965	—	British

References

1. ^ Beiser, Frederick C. (2016). Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-876871-5. OCLC 929590292.
2. ^ Sully, James (1877). Pessimism: A History and a Criticism. London: Henry S. King & Co.
3. Becker, Ernest (2007). The Denial of Death. Free Press. ISBN 978-1-4165-9034-7.
4. Benatar, David (2006). Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199296422.
5. ^ Coates, Ken (2016). Anti-Natalism: Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar. First Edition Design Publishing. ISBN 978-1506-902-40-1.
6. ^ Prescott, Paul (2012). "What Pessimism Is" (PDF). Journal of Philosophical Research. 37: 337–356. doi:10.5840/jpr20123716.
7. Sully, James (1877). Pessimism: A History and a Criticism. London: Henry S. King & Co. p. 38.
8. ^ Ligotti, Thomas (2011). The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. New York: Hippocampus Press. ISBN 978-0-9844802-7-2. OCLC 805656473.
9. Cabrera, Julio (2019). Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-1803-2. OCLC 1078636651.
10. Camus, Albert (2018). The Myth of Sisyphus. Translated by O'Brien, Justin. New York: Vintage International. ISBN 978-0-525-56700-4. OCLC 1076457902.
11. ^ Dienstag, Joshua Foa (2009). Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14112-1.
12. ^ van der Lugt, Mara (2021). Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20662-2.
13. Caraco, Albert (1982). Le bréviaire du chaos (in French).
14. Laërtius, Diogenes (2018). The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. Translated by Yonge, Charles Duke. Project Gutenberg.
15. Dalton, Drew M. (October 15, 2023). The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0810146402.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
16. Horstmann, Ulrich (1985). Das Untier: Konturen einer Philosophie der Menschenflucht (in German). Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3518376720.
17. ^ Rozveh, Nasser Ghasemi (2013). "The Comparative Survey of Pessimism in Abul Ala Al-Maarri and Hakim Omar Khayyam Poems" (PDF). Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research. 3 (3): 405–413. ISSN 2090-4304.
18. Michelstaedter, Carlo (2004). Persuasion and Rhetoric. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300104349.
19. Schopenhauer, Arthur (2010) . Welchman, Alistair; Janaway, Christopher; Norman, Judith (eds.). The World as Will and Representation. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511780943. ISBN 978-0-521-87184-6.
20. Schopenhauer, Arthur (2018) . Welchman, Alistair; Janaway, Christopher; Norman, Judith (eds.). The World as Will and Representation. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9780511843112. ISBN 978-0-521-87034-4.
21. Thacker, Eugene (July 17, 2018). Infinite Resignation. Repeater. ISBN 978-1912248193.
22. Herman Tønnessen - Happiness is for the Pigs: Philosophy versus Psychotherapy (1966)
23. Unamuno, Miguel de. The Tragic Sense of Life. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
24. Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2004) . "The Last Messiah". Philosophy Now. No. 45. Translated by Tangenes, Gisle R. pp. 35–39. ISSN 0961-5970.
25. Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2024). On the Tragic. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-1-636-67488-9.

• Lists of philosophers
• Philosophical pessimism