In Hopeful Pessimism, Mara Van Der Lugt (a lecturer in philosophy at St. Andrews and author, among other books, of Dark Matters) reimagines optimism and pessimism, hope and despair, in the context ...

Influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimism, Zapffe believed human ... the last messiah’s words of advice express his antinatalist philosophy: “Be unfruitful and let there be peace on ...