The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1994
- Retrieved
- Dec 13, 2017
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Despair, Cynicism, and Absurdism
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but because it can't take ideals seriously in the first place. The prevailing attitude is Absurdism. A postmodern magazine may be irreverent, but not…