Degeneration
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Degeneration is an 1892 book by Max Nordau that offers a scathing critique of fin-de-siècle European art, literature, and culture, arguing that many modernist trends reflect psychological and moral decay.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Degeneration canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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literary criticism ⓘ |
| author | Max Nordau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Decadent movement
NERFINISHED
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Henrik Ibsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Impressionism NERFINISHED ⓘ Naturalism ⓘ Nietzsche NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Wilde NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ Symbolism NERFINISHED ⓘ Tolstoy NERFINISHED ⓘ fin-de-siècle European art ⓘ fin-de-siècle European culture ⓘ fin-de-siècle European literature ⓘ Émile Zola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
cultural criticism
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psychological criticism ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
analysis of contemporary artists
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analysis of contemporary writers ⓘ discussion of nervous disorders ⓘ discussion of social decay ⓘ |
| influenced |
conservative criticism of modernism
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discourse on degenerate art ⓘ early 20th-century cultural debates ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pathologizing modernist art and literature
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scathing critique of fin-de-siècle culture ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Entartung ⓘ |
| positionOnModernism | hostile ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1892 ⓘ |
| subject |
aesthetics
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decadence ⓘ degeneration theory ⓘ fin-de-siècle culture ⓘ modern art ⓘ modern literature ⓘ modernism ⓘ psychopathology ⓘ |
| theoreticalBasis |
contemporary psychiatry
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positivism ⓘ social Darwinism ⓘ |
| tone |
moralizing
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polemical ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
degenerate art
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degeneration ⓘ heredity ⓘ |
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