Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is not worth living. He e

Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that

Looks at the distinction between pessimism and Weltschmerz in three German poets. Then classifies the latter, both as to its origin and its form of expression a

"Throughout history, the religious imagination has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, w

"Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry" is an analysis of the works by Goethe, Hoelderlin, and Lenau on the subject of weltschmerz. Weltschmerz is a term coined