Degeneration - Softcover

Nordau, Max Simon

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9781530963195: Degeneration
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ISBN 10: 1530963192 ISBN 13: 9781530963195
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Fin-de-siècle is a name covering both what is characteristic of many modern phenomena, and also the underlying mood which in them finds expression. Experience has long shown that an idea usually derives its designation from the language of the nation which first formed it. This, indeed, is a law of constant application when historians of manners and customs inquire into language, for the purpose of obtaining some notion, through the origins of some verbal root, respecting the home of the earliest inventions and the line of evolution in different human races. Fin-de-siècle is French, for it was in France that the mental state so entitled was first consciously realized. The word has flown from one hemisphere to the other, and found its way into all civilized languages.

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1530963192
ISBN 13 
9781530963195
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
198
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