Pessimism is a mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation. Pessimists tend to focus on the negatives of life...

Philosophical pessimism is a family of philosophical views that assign a negative value to life or existence. Philosophical pessimists commonly argue...

Afro-pessimism or Afropessimism may refer to: Afro-pessimism (Africa), a narrative about political and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa in the...

Cultural pessimism arises with the conviction that the culture of a nation, a civilization, or humanity itself is in a process of irreversible decline...

Defensive pessimism is a cognitive strategy in which an individual sets a low expectation for their performance, regardless of how well they have done...

Pessimism porn is a neologism coined in 2009 during the Great Recession to describe the alleged eschatological and survivalist thrill some people derive...

Afro-pessimism is a critical framework that describes the ongoing effects of racism, colonialism, and historical processes of enslavement in the United...

Philosophical pessimism is a philosophical school critical of existence. Pessimistic sentiments can be found throughout religions and in the works of...

The pessimism controversy or pessimism dispute (German: Pessimismusstreit) is an intellectual controversy that occurred in Germany, starting in the 1860s...

variant regarding a car's gas tank occurs in print with the optimism/pessimism connotations as early as 1929, and the glass-with-water version is mentioned...

recognized as prominent in the 1880s and 1890s, including ennui, cynicism, pessimism, and "a widespread belief that civilization leads to decadence." The term...

favorable, and desirable. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass filled with water to the halfway point: an optimist is said...

We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism is a 2009 non-fiction book by British-American writer John Derbyshire. He draws upon classical conservatism...

The Dialogue of Pessimism is an ancient Mesopotamian literary composition in the form of a dialogue between a master and his slave. Its interpretations...

In African studies, Afro-pessimism refers to a view popularised in the 1980s and 1990s which expressed doubt about the possibility of sustainable peace...

personal optimism, or a distortion for others, representing personal pessimism. Pessimism bias is an effect in which people exaggerate the likelihood that...

Everyone is always hustling someone else. That gives the movie a provocative pessimism". The Washington Post noted that "Monkey Man addresses the inequities...

maintenance of self-worth, are called self-handicapping and defensive pessimism respectively. The strategy of self-handicapping allows an individual to...

and pessimism, as well as to contemporary philosophies of speculative realism and collapsology. His short book Cosmic Pessimism defines pessimism as "the...

Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community...

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historical concept arising out of nominalism, skepticism, and philosophical pessimism, as well as possibly out of Christianity itself. Contemporary understanding...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book has been described as a metaphysical thriller. Chesterton prefixed...

murders. True Detective's first season explores themes of philosophical pessimism, masculinity, and Christianity; critics have analyzed the show's portrayal...

optimism. For James, meliorism stands in the middle between optimism and pessimism, and treats the salvation of the world as a probability rather than a...

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interests in analytic philosophy, the history of ideas, and philosophical pessimism. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London...

work has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism. Though his work failed to garner substantial attention during his lifetime...

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also Agnotology Axiology Critical theory Cultural criticism Cultural pessimism Ethics Historism Historicism Humanities Philosophy of culture Philosophy...