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Degeneration
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Book Description
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, s... More
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PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
BindingPaperback (42 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages566
ISBN-100803283679
ISBN-13978-0803283671
Publication Date11/01/1993
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