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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 and toward an examination of the value of life. He examines the major defenders of pessimism (Philipp Mainlander, Eduard von Hartmann and Julius Bahnsen) and its chief critics, especially Eugen Duhring and the neo-Kantians. The pessimism dispute of the second half of the century has been largely ignored in secondary literature and this book is a first attempt since the 1880s to re-examine it and to analyze the important philosophical issues raised by it. The dispute concerned the most fundamental philosophical issue of them all: whether life is worth living

En 1860 encore, l'Amérique est spatialement incomplète. La frontière atteint seulement le 95e méridien, avec deux légères avancées en Texas et en Nebraska, plus, en territoire canadien, une poche isolée au Sud du lac Winnipeg. Au-delà, espaces inhabités. Les Mormons ont irrigué Sait Lake City ; des aventuriers ont tenté quelques mining rushes, qui, bien souvent, ont dégénéré en colonies agricoles : en somme, bien peu de chose — et la terre, jusqu'aux Rocheuses, vide d'hommes (moins d'un habitant au kilomètre carré), est également vide de toute activité économique, hors la vie nomade des Indiens et celle des rouliers au long des « trails ».