Un livre qui situe chaque émotion dans une situation qui la fait naître. La scène permet d'identifier les attitudes et mimiques caractéristiques du sentiment éprouvé. Ce sentiment diffus et confus prends alors une dimension concrète, il peut être vu et nommé. L'enfant pourra reconaître douze émotions qui peuvent quotidiennement déborder en lui et chez les autres.

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications. It explores how, since pessimism as a worldview is not empirically verifiable, writers on pessimism shift the discussion to verisimilitude, opening up rich territory for cross-fertilization between philosophy and literature. The book traces debates on pessimism in the nineteenth century among French nonfiction writers who either lauded its promotion of compassion or condemned it for being a sick and unliveable attempt at renunciation. It then examines the way novelists and poets take up and transform these questions by portraying characters in lived situations that serve as testing grounds for the merits or limitations of pessimism. The debate on pessimism that emerged in the nineteenth century is still very much with us, and this book offers an interhistorical argument for embracing pessimism as a way of living well in the world, aesthetically, ethically, and politically.

The second of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.