Cruel optimism (Record no. 66877)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780822351115
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Distributor Name : International Book Distributors
Distributor address : Flat no. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, New Delhi
Bill Number : 122274
Bill Date : 6/12/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 302.22 BER
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Berlant, Lauren Gail.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Cruel optimism
Statement of responsibility, etc /Lauren Gail Berlant.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Duke University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2012.
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Extent 343p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
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Price amount 1676
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Summary, etc 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 social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—despite evidence that liberal-capitalist societies can no longer be counted on to provide opportunities for individuals to make their lives “add up to something.”<br/><br/>Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory—with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary—is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cruel optimism
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ooptimism
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sociology
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Personal name Lauren Berlant.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 29/12/2025 International Book Distributors 1676.00 2 302.22 BER 31273 04/10/2026 10/09/2026 29/12/2025 Books
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