Entartung
Degeneration
Europe, intellectual life
Symbolism in literature
Comparative Literature
Vie intellectuelle
Mysticism
Intellectual life
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 h…
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