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Philosophical Pessimism Books
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,260 ratings — published 2011
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,286 ratings — published 1973
The Last Messiah (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,951 ratings — published 1933
Essays and Aphorisms (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,430 ratings — published 1851
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,540 ratings — published 1818
Studies in Pessimism: The Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,292 ratings — published 1890
On the Suffering of the World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,415 ratings — published 1850
On the Tragic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.15 — 61 ratings — published 1941
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,272 ratings — published 1949
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,713 ratings — published 1871
The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.00 — 902 ratings — published
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,174 ratings — published 2002
Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.37 — 113 ratings — published 2016
Parerga and Paralipomena (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.14 — 651 ratings — published 1851
The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,569 ratings — published 1844
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,430 ratings — published 2006
The Immanent Philosophy of Philipp Mainländer (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.38 — 13 ratings — published
Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.76 — 356 ratings — published 2007
Persuasion and Rhetoric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.27 — 394 ratings — published 1910
My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,631 ratings — published 2002
Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.60 — 498 ratings — published 1997
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,434 ratings — published 2014
Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.95 — 381 ratings — published 2015
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,382 ratings — published 2023
The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.18 — 17 ratings — published
Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,057 ratings — published 1987
Опыт трагического (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Sonnets and Poems of Anthero de Quental (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
The World as Will and Representation: A Philosophical Foundation of Western Metaphysics and Aesthetics (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,500 ratings — published 1818
The Basis of Morality (Dover Philosophical Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.96 — 562 ratings — published 1840
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.05 — 672 ratings — published 1813
Essay on the Freedom of the Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.15 — 945 ratings — published 1839
The Consolations of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.01 — 35,511 ratings — published 2000
Happiness is for the Pigs: Philosophy vs Psychotherapy (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.30 — 37 ratings — published
Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives (Explorations in Mental Health)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.40 — 45 ratings — published 2016
Keeping Ourselves in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.97 — 64 ratings — published 2015
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,007 ratings — published 1920
Tears and Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,569 ratings — published 1937
The Loser (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,481 ratings — published 1983
Post mortem (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.70 — 289 ratings — published 1968
Concrete (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,197 ratings — published 1982
The Occult of the Unborn (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.23 — 14 ratings — published
The Dark Side: Thoughts on the Futility of Life from the Ancient Greeks to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.34 — 50 ratings — published 1994
The Philosophy of Disenchantment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 77 ratings — published 1885
Philip Larkin: Poems selected by Martin Amis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 611 ratings — published 2003
Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Classic Essays on Philosophy, Human Nature, Art, and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.18 — 65 ratings — published
Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.98 — 53 ratings — published
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,099,404 ratings — published 2006
The Dubious Gift of Life: Antinatalism in Poems and Essays (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-pessimism)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published