Concept
Weltschmerz
Overview
deep sadness about the state of the world
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Related ideas
- Heinrich Heine
- Hermann Hesse
- François-René de Chateaubriand
- Mind
- Worldview
- Marquis de Sade
- Oscar Wilde
- Romanticism
- Ralph Ellison
- Reality
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Decadent movement
- Charles Baudelaire
- Evil
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophical pessimism.