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A book subtitled “Queer Theory and the Death Drive” promotes a “queer” form of this attitude as an alternative to “reproductive futurism” and is by Lee Edelman. Saidiya Hartman’s concept of fungibility is applied to Jared Sexton’s interpretation of the “libidinal economy” in a formulation of this attitude developed in Red, White, and Black. God’s death created the universe according to a book that develops an extreme form of this attitude; (15[1])that book is The Philosophy of Redemption by (*) Philipp Mainländer. Frank Wilderson developed an “afro-” form of this attitude. (10[1])The Buddhist concept of duḥkha inspired the author of On the Basis of Morality to adopt this attitude, which he justified by arguing that the thing-in-itself is a “blind striving” that cannot be satisfied. For 10 points, name this attitude exemplified by Arthur Schopenhauer’s (10[1])claim that we live in the worst of all possible worlds. ■END■

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