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Hoopvol pessimisme
Alles komt niet goed En toch doen we wat we kunnen In tijden van crisis moeten we optimistisch blijven: een positieve blik, vertrouwen in vooruitgang, de moed erin houden. Maar wat als die vorm van optimisme ons juist verhindert om de werkelijkheid onder ogen te zien? In Hoopvol pessimisme pleit filosoof Mara van der Lugt voor een radicale herwaardering van het pessimisme. Niet als cynisme of gelatenheid, maar als een doordachte houding die ons juist aanzet tot handelen en morele verantwoordelijkheid. Aan de hand van schrijvers en denkers als J.R.R. Tolkien en Mary Shelley, Albert Camus en Jonathan Lear nodigt Van der Lugt ons uit om opnieuw na te denken over optimisme en pessimisme, hoop en wanhoop, activisme en verdriet. Ze laat zien dat hoopvol pessimisme geen tegenstrijdigheid is, maar een vruchtbare houding die verdriet en kwetsbaarheid niet wegdrukt, maar erkent – en daarin ruimte vindt voor echte betrokkenheid en actie. ‘In haar scherpzinnige boek doet de Nederlandse filosoof Mara van der Lugt een goed woordje voor het pessimisme. Ze waarschuwt dat het uiteindelijk niet zou moeten gaan over woorden en gevoelens, maar om daadkracht en morele verantwoordelijkheid.’ – Tim Fransen in de Volkskrant Mara van der Lugt (1986) studeerde filosofie aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, promoveerde aan de universiteit van Oxford en is sinds 2021 verbonden aan University of St Andrews in Schotland. Hoopvol pessimisme verscheen in 2025 in het Engels bij Princeton University Press.
€ 24,90 -
Begetting
What Does It Mean to Create a Child?"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers"
€ 24,95 -
Hopeful Pessimism
Why 'hopeful pessimism' is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitment
€ 27,50 -
Hopeful Pessimism
Why “hopeful pessimism” is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitmentThe climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and disasters intensify, we are asked to maintain optimism and hope, as if the real threat is pessimism and despair. In this erudite and engaging book, Mara van der Lugt argues that this is a mistake: crude optimism can no longer be a virtue in a breaking world, and may well prove to be our besetting vice. In an age of climate change and ecological devastation, the virtue we need is hopeful pessimism.Drawing on thinkers that range from J.R.R.Tolkien and Mary Shelley to Albert Camus and Jonathan Lear, van der Lugt invites us to rethink what we thought we knew about optimism and pessimism, hope and despair, activism and grief. She shows that pessimism is closely linked to a tradition of moral and political activism, and offers a different way to think about pessimism: not as synonymous with despair but as compatible with hope. Gently yet fiercely, van der Lugt argues that what we need to avoid is not pessimism but fatalism or self-serving resignation. Pessimism does not imply the loss of courage or the lack of a desire to strive for a better world; on the contrary, these are the very gifts that pessimism can bestow.What Hopeful Pessimism asks instead is that we strive for change without certainties, without expecting anything from our efforts other than the knowledge that we have done what we are called upon to do as moral agents in a time of change.
€ 22,50 -
Dünyaya Cocuk Getirmek Ne Anlama Gelir
Hepimiz kulaga cok siradanmis gibi gelen, Cocuk sahibi olmak istiyor musun sorusunu defalarca kez duymusuzdur. Mara van der Lugt insan varolusunun en derin meselelerinden birinin gizlendigi bu soru üzerine süregelen suskunlugu bozarak cesur bir düsünsel yolculuga cikariyor bizi. Bir cocuk yaratmak ne demektir Dünyaya bir cocuk getirme karari cogalma güdüsü ve yerlesik toplumsal kabullerle izah edilecek kadar önemsiz mi Kendisine danisamayacagimiz bir varlik adina hayatin yasanmaya deger olduguna karar vermeye hakkimiz var miMara van der Lugt felsefeden teolojiye, etik tartismalardan edebiyata ve günümüz popüler kültürüne uzanan genis bir alanda, cocuk sahibi olma arzusunun temelini sarsacak bir düsünme alani aciyor.
€ 19,99 -
Materie oscure. Il pessimismo e il problema della sofferenza
Una rivalutazione, e un'appassionata riabilitazione, di una 'tradizione ombra' del pensiero, il pessimismo filosofico. La filosofa Mara van der Lugt utilizza una storia delle idee - originale, vasta, profonda -, assai più che per fare storiografia, per affrontare quello che per Schopenhauer era il tema dei temi: 'del male mostruoso e senza nome, della tremenda, struggente infelicità a questo mondo'. 'Il precipitato insolubile' di tutta l'esperienza degli esseri, umani e non umani. L'autrice mette a dibattito tra loro 'alcune delle pagine più oscure della filosofia', per condurre alla conclusione che il pessimismo, bistrattato e sottovalutato, sia in realtà la vera risorsa morale per recuperare qualcosa di rilevante e urgente per noi ancora oggi: la compassione, la consolazione di fronte alla fragilità della vita, e, in ultima analisi, la speranza. La scelta cade sui filosofi, noti e meno noti, tra XVII e XVIII secolo (ma si discute anche di odierne posizioni antinataliste): Bayle, Malebranche, Maupertuis, Leibniz, Voltaire, i deisti, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, spesso colti nelle loro pagine più segrete. Una scelta che dipende da varie ragioni. Prima di tutto perché è Bayle che supera l'impostazione medievale del problema del male (il male come peccato e punizione) per identificare il male come sofferenza (anche degli animali). È da questo che deriva il nesso tra il male e il pessimismo: il problema del male diventa domanda sul senso della vita, da cui l'opposizione all'ottimismo e la discussione sulla capacità e la possibilità esistenziale di essere felici. Ma la scelta dei nomi dipende soprattutto dal fatto che sono questi i pensatori più 'coinvolti', quelli che avvertono l'urgenza di ciò che è attuale fino ad oggi e rischia di essere taciuto e frastornato: vale a dire l'obbligo di non considerare la sofferenza come una non-entità, di 'non minimizzare il dolore, il lutto', il fallimento. Per dichiarazione dell'autrice, Materie oscure mette l'enfasi sulla filosofia più che sulla sua storia. Usa il metodo 'dialogico' di considerare i filosofi in dibattito tra loro, al di sopra del tempo, dando allo studio una impronta etico-valutativa affinché le grandi questioni della 'giustificazione dell'esistenza' (spesso abbandonate da una filosofia che ha perso interesse per il singolo, per 'l'intimità', per il 'personale') possano risuonare per noi oggi. 'Attualmente nella nostra cultura ha prevalso una narrazione: sei tu il responsabile della tua felicità. Il rovescio della medaglia è che allo stesso tempo se non siamo felici è perché stiamo sbagliando. La vulnerabilità diventa una colpa. L'idea priva di compassione che siamo noi stessi la causa della nostra (in)felicità è che nessuno ha più motivo di occuparsi della sofferenza altrui. Ecco l'etica del pessimismo: un'immediata apertura a una forma compiuta e incondizionata di compassione. È ok non essere ok'
€ 44,50 -
Begetting
"An investigation of what it means to have children-morally, philosophically and emotionally 'Do you want to have children?' is a question we routinely ask each other. But what does it mean to create a child? Is this decision always justified? Does anyone really have the moral right to create another person? In Begetting, Mara van der Lugt attempts to fill in the moral background of procreation. Drawing on both philosophy and popular culture, van der Lugt does not provide a definitive answer on the morality of having a child; instead, she helps us find the right questions to ask. Most of the time, when we talk about whether to have children, what we are really talking about is whether we want to have children. Van der Lugt shows why this is not enough. To consider having children, she argues, is to interrogate our own responsibility and commitments, morally and philosophically and also personally. What does it mean to bring a new creature into the world, to decide to perform an act of creation? What does it mean to make the decision that life is worth living on behalf of a person who cannot be consulted? These questions are part of a conversation we should have started long ago. Van der Lugt does not ignore the problematic aspects of procreation-ethical, environmental and otherwise. But she also acknowledges the depth and complexity of the intensely human desire to have a child of our own blood and our own making"--
€ 37,50 -
Dark Matters
An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope.Bringing to life one of the most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der Lugt discusses legendary figures such as Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer. She also introduces readers to less familiar names, such as Bayle, King, La Mettrie, and Maupertuis. Van der Lugt describes not only how the earliest optimists and pessimists were deeply concerned with finding an answer to the question of the value of existence that does justice to the reality of human suffering, but also how they were fundamentally divided over what such an answer should look like.A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's leading scholars, Dark Matters reveals how the crucial moral aim of pessimism is to find a way of speaking about suffering that offers consolation and does justice to the fragility of life.
€ 27,50 -
Dark Matters
"An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope.Bringing to life one of most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der Lugt discusses legendary figures such as Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer. She also introduces readers to less familiar names, such as Bayle, King, La Mettrie, and Maupertuis. Van der Lugt describes how the earliest optimists and pessimists were deeply concerned with finding an answer to the question of the value of existence that does justice to the reality of human suffering, but how they were fundamentally divided over what such an answer should look like.A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's leading scholars, Dark Matters reveals how the crucial moral aim of pessimism is to find a way of speaking about suffering that offers consolation and does justice to the fragility of life"--
€ 44,00