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AS PO ab WS 16/17 Kern: 6abc, 7c Komp: 3abcd Kern: 6bc Komp: 4a 1abc, 2abc, 3b 2ab, 4b PO ab WS 21/22 Kern: 6abc, 7c Komp: 3abcd Kern: 6bc Komp: 4a 1abc, 2abc, 3b 2ab, 4b Return to English Literature & [...] Pessimism Course Information Nr. Name Type Time Room Lecturer 154526 Pessimism 2 HS We 16:00 - 17:30 R. 3.208 Schmitt Description “No one ever needs pessimism”, writes Eugene Thacker; it is the “night-side [...] a melodrama of the futility of the brain, a lyricism written in the graveyard of philosophy” (2018: 3). So why teach and attend a seminar about something no one needs and why read texts that aren’t going …