Translation into English of Olga Plumacher’s Der Pessimismus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
Working with google a pig german translation into English of Olga Plumacher’s Der Pessimismus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart - because it doesnt exist and I want to read it.
Following link is to translation into English I am working on lazi-lilly in between other stuff:
Working with google a pig german translation into English of Olga Plumacher’s Der Pessimismus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart - because it doesnt exist and I want to read it.
Buried in Beersheba Springs,Grundy County,Tennessee,USA
Olga moved to Tennessee, but she still wrote in German.
It was an influential book: Nietzsche owned a copy (as did Sam Beckett), and there are clear cases where Nietzsche borrowed phraseology from Plümacher.
Following link is to Synopsis from Abstract : Worse than the best possible pessimism? Olga Plümacher's critique of Schopenhauer, by Christopher Janaway
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09608788.2021.1881441
Plümacher specifies philosophical pessimism as comprising two propositions: ‘The sum of displeasure outweighs the sum of pleasure’ and ‘Consequently the non-being of the world would be better than its being’.
Plümacher cites Schopenhauer as the first proponent of this position, and Eduard von Hartmann as the thinker who has developed it to its fullest potential. She heavily criticizes Schopenhauer in many respects, not for being a pessimist, but rather for not achieving as good a pessimism as he might have done, on the following major grounds: that his account of pleasure as merely privative is implausible, that he has a confused account of individuation, that his retention of a Christian notion of guilt is gratuitous, that he lapses into the self-pitying subjectivity of the condition she calls Weltschmerz, and that his philosophy leads to quietism, and is thus inferior to von Hartmann’s combination of pessimism and optimism, which allows for social progress.
Following link is to Original German Book:
Der Pessimismus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Geschichtliches und Kritisches, by Olga Plümacher · 1884