Degeneration

by Max Nordau, George L. Mosse (Introduction)

Overview

Degeneration, and the controversy it aroused, served to define the fin de siècle. Its targets included Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Richard Wagner, Zola, and Walt Whitman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803283671
Publisher:	Nebraska Paperback
Publication date:	11/01/1993
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	566
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

George L. Mosse's important introduction has been added to this Bison Book edition. His many works include The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich.

Editorial Reviews

"Degeneration is one of the most important documents of the fin de siècle, the years between the 1880s and 1900 when the robust views of the nineteenth century clashed with the heightened sensibilities of a searching and disillusioned generation. . . . [It] is a mirror of conflicting attitudes which are, in fact, contemporary with our present cultural dilemmas. But culture itself always reflects the state of society. Max Nordau presents us with a searchlight whose beams reflect the kind of world [we] have made for [ourselves.]"—George L. Mosse in his introduction to the 1968 edition

George L. Mosse