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Fin-de-si cle is a name covering both what is characteristic of many modern phenomena, and also the underlying mood which in them finds expression. Experience has long shown that an idea usually derives its designation from the language of the nation which first formed it. This,... Read Full Overview

Max Nordau was a famous writer, a practicing physician, a bourgeois examplar of enterprise and energy when his Degeneration appeared in Germany in 1892. He argued that the spirit of the times was characterized by enervation, exhaustion, hysteria, egotism, and inability to adjust... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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" J'ai entrepris d'examiner les tendances ? la mode dans l'art et la litt?rature et de prouver qu'elles ont leur source dans la d?g?n?rescence de leurs auteurs, et que ceux qui les admirent s'enthousiasment pour les manifestations de la folie morale, de l'imb?cilit? et de 1a... Read Full Overview

2014 Reprint of 1895 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "'Degeneration' is one of the most important documents of the fin de si cle, the years between the 1880s and 1900 when the robust views of the nineteenth century... Read Full Overview

A sensational success when first published in 1893, the violent hatreds Degeneration roused among younger artists followed the author for the rest of his life. The book pursues a medicalised examination of some of the literary and artistic movements of the period. However,... Read Full Overview

Degeneration is a non-fiction book written by Max Nordau, first published in 1892. The book examines the concept of degeneration, which Nordau defines as the physical, intellectual, and moral decline of individuals and societies. Nordau argues that degeneration is caused by a... Read Full Overview

Degeneration is a book written by Max Nordau, a Hungarian-born physician and writer, in 1892. The book explores the concept of degeneration, which Nordau defines as the decline of individual and societal health and morality. Nordau argues that degeneration is caused by a range... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Degeneration by Max Nordau

Reproduction of the original: Degeneration by Max Nordau

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview