Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Existential despair


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The result was redirect to Angst. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:12, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Existential despair

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After doing some research I'm not convinced there is any such thing. That is, existentialists sometimes write about despair, but 1)they don't necessarily mean the same thing by it, and 2)they don't necessarily mean anything different by it than a meaning of the term generally available. The term "existential despair" as such is occasionally used, but not actually to refer to existential philosophy. The section on Kierkegaard, though a good try, is I fear conflating several Kierkegaardian topics, including material covered (also not very well) at existential crisis (I do not propose a merge there, however, since both articles need to rewritten and referenced). The term seems to refer in the uses I could find (mostly by doing an exact-text search at JSTOR) to a particularly vividly felt form of unhappiness, not to a philosophical concept. This article was considered for deletion before several years ago at Votes for deletion/Existential despair; no clear consensus emerged from that debate. Chick Bowen 23:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete as unreferenced very poorly sourced original research. Of course, I'd be happy to reconsider if additional reliable sources were provided.  --ElKevbo 04:38, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Angst or Existentialism; possibly one or two lines could be merged but this looks like very obvious WP:OR Eleland 14:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Angst, as that's what I believe Joe Sixpack would take the term to mean. --Agamemnon2 22:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Redirect' per Agamemnon2. Bearian 03:20, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Redirect per above. Thin Arthur 08:35, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


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