Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c. 1848-1918 (Ideas in Context) | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Pick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 052145753X
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780521457538
ASIN: 052145753X
Publication Date: July 30, 1993
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Product Description
This book investigates the specific conception and descent of a language of "degeneration" from 1848 to 1918, with particular reference to France, Italy, and England. The author shows how in the refraction and wake of evolution and naturalism, new images and theories of atavism, "degenerescence" and socio-biological decline emerged in European culture and politics. He indicates the wide cultural and political importance of the idea of degeneration, while showing that the notion could mean different things at different times in different places. Exploring the distinctive historical and discursive contexts in France, Italy, and England within which the idea was developed, the book traces the profound complex of political issues to which the concept of degeneration gave rise during the period from the revolutions of 1848 to the First World War and beyond.
Book Description
Exploring the historical contexts in France, Italy, and England within which the idea was developed, this text traces the political issues to which the concept of degeneration gave rise during the period from the revolutions of 1848 to the First World War and beyond.
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Cultural historians be aware! October 7, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Pick's book is a fabulous exploration of the theme of "degeneration" in Europe leading up through the end of WWI, which is particularly useful for those with a literary or philosophical interest in modern thought. If you are looking for exacting research, in mode of traditional or exacting historiography, this book might leave you looking for more. However, what Pick lacks in depth and exactness he gains in producing a sense of the cultural discourse of "degeneration" in terms of a discursive, text-based inquiry.
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