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Weltschmerz

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Weltschmerz

By Frederick C. Beiser

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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 life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer, whose philosophy became very fashionable in the 1860s. Frederick C. Beiser examines the intense and long controversy that arose from Schopenhauer's pessimism, which changed the agenda of philosophy in Germany away from the logic of the sciences a...Show more

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9780198822653

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Oxford University Press

Published year

2018

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