{"product_id":"degeneration-max-nordau-9780803283671","title":"Degeneration","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, so were the authors and artists of the era. Degeneration, and the controversy it aroused, served to define the fine de si鐵le. Its targets included Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Richard Wagner, Zola, and Walt Whitman. The book was enormously influential. Nordau anticipated Freud in describing art as a product of neurosis, and he set a precedent for psychological and sociological critiques of literature. You may wish to talk back to \u003ci\u003eDegeneration\u003c\/i\u003e, as George Bernard Shaw did, but you will be entertained by its vitality. Holbrook Jackson, in \u003ci\u003eThe Eighteen Nineties\u003c\/i\u003e, called the book \"an example of the very liveliness of a period which was equally lively in making or marring itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Max Nordau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803283679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803283671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 5.82w x 0.97d","brand":"Max Nordau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947207065855,"sku":"9780803283671","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_434a821e-23d9-4edf-9629-a36d20fbaf64.jpg?v=1681517358","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/degeneration-max-nordau-9780803283671","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}