Degeneration by Nordau, Max - 1993-11-01

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University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Nebraska Press, 1993-11-01. Paperback. Good. 8x5x1. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.

Lincoln & London: U. Of Nebraska, 1993. 566pp. Corners & ends of spine lightly rubbed & bumped; light soiling on edges. Footnotes & index.. 2nd Ed.. Pb. VG.

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University of Nebraska Press, 1993 This book has been kept in a plastic sleeve so is in perfect condition. 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 or to act. Culture had degenerated, he said, and if criminals, prostitutes, anarchists, and lunatics were degenerates, so were the authors and artists of the era. Degeneration, and the controversy it aroused, served to define the fine de siècle. Its targets included Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Richard Wagner, Zola, and Walt Whitman. The book was enormously influential. Nordau anticipated Freud in describing art as a product of neurosis, and he set a precedent for psychological and sociological critiques of literature. You may wish to talk back to Degeneration, as George Bernard Shaw did, but you will be… Read More

University of Nebraska Press, 1993-11-01. Reprinted edition. paperback. Used:Good.

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Paperback / softback. New. 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 or to act.

Paperback / softback. New. 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 or to act.