Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant

Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant

350 pages paperback 2011

6 editions

nonfiction philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the soc...

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