English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

In response to widespread environmental concerns, a global pandemic, and authoritarian creep there has been insufficient political will to grapple with these pervasive problems. This lack of a political response is troubling, yet people are condemned as irrational, unpatriotic, or worse – conservative – if they do not maintain optimism about a better future. There is widespread repudiation of pessimism on the left, meanwhile there is little guarantee the future will deliver a brighter tomorrow. Philosophical pessimism may seem an unexpected position from which to consider the incongruent relationships among the myth of progress, contemporary political stagnation, capitalism, and climate change. However, a critical version of this orientation offers a ballast to toxic positivity, as well as a unique orientation to the myth of progress and the domination of nature. One that enables a reframed relationship to the climate crisis, income inequality, and creeping authoritarian populism.

The Critical Pessimism of Theodor Adorno