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A disease of despair is one of three classes of behavior-related medical conditions that increase in groups of people who experience despair due to a sense that their long-term social and economic prospects are bleak.
The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, which he terms "the sin of despair".
Despair (Russian: Отчаяние, or Otchayanie) is the seventh novel by Vladimir Nabokov, originally published in Russian, serially in the politicized literary journal Sovremennye zapiski during 1934.
The Sorrows of Young Werther ([ˈveːɐ̯tɐ]; German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), or simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787.
Disparate impact in the law of the United States refers to practices in employment, housing, and other areas that adversely affect one group of people of a protected characteristic more than another, even though rules applied by employers or landlords are formally neutral.
Editor’s note: This column has been updated to reflect new information that senior U.S. diplomats have arrived in Syria. By Tony Hunter. In the 12 years since Austin Tice was abducted in Syria ...
The ballad is told from the perspective of a man who has despaired of life because he has lost his lover. He laments that he is dying of a broken heart, that he is going to become a poor pilgrim and wander the earth telling strangers of his miseries, and that he wishes he could find a deserted place where nobody had ever been before.
Despair is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.