My last post was about the philosophical pessimist Emil Cioran. Since then I have discovered another pessimistic writer, one that I had never heard of before—Albert Caraco. Caraco (1919 – 1971) was a French-Uruguayan philosopher, writer, essayist and poet of Turkish Jewish descent. He is known for his two major works, Post Mortem (1968) and posthumously published Breviary of Chaos (1982). Continue reading The Philosophy of Albert Caraco →